13 Free F. Scott Fitzgerald Books [PDF]

Jay Gatsby throws parties every weekend for a woman who never comes, and readers have not stopped watching since. Download The Great Gatsby and 12 more F. Scott Fitzgerald books in free PDF, from his Princeton debut to the stories that named the Jazz Age.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald wrote the 1920s while they were still happening. This collection holds his three public domain novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, plus ten short works including All the Sad Young Men and Winter Dreams.

He wrote about money, social class, and people trying to invent themselves into someone better. Pick any title below and download the full PDF free, with no account and no wait.

• This Side of Paradise

  

  Fitzgerald's debut novel follows Amory Blaine from a privileged boyhood through Princeton and into a postwar world that no longer matches what he was promised. The book that made him famous at twenty-three.

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  Format: PDF 270 pages 4.51 MB

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• The Beautiful and Damned

  

  Anthony and Gloria Patch spend their twenties waiting on an inheritance and find out how expensive waiting is. A portrait of a marriage dissolving in money, alcohol and idleness.

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  Format: PDF 369 pages 1.36 MB

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• The Great Gatsby

  

  Jay Gatsby throws parties every weekend for a woman who never comes, and Nick Carraway watches it all from the house next door. The novel that defined the Jazz Age and the American Dream at its most dazzling and most hollow.

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  Format: PDF 140 pages 0.5 MB

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• Flappers and Philosophers

  

  Fitzgerald's first story collection, eight tales including The Ice Palace, Bernice Bobs Her Hair and The Offshore Pirate. Young people testing what they can get away with in a country that has just changed its rules.

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  Format: PDF 223 pages 1.27 MB

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• Tales of the Jazz Age

  

  Eleven stories spanning satire, fantasy and social comedy, among them May Day, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The collection that gave the decade its name.

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  Format: PDF 274 pages 0.9 MB

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• All the Sad Young Men

  

  Nine stories written just after The Great Gatsby, including Winter Dreams, The Rich Boy and Absolution. Fitzgerald at his sharpest on ambition, class and what wanting something too much does to a person.

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  Format: PDF 124 pages 1.61 MB

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• Winter Dreams

  

  Dexter Green builds a fortune to deserve a woman he first met as a caddie, then learns what happens when the dream outlives the wanting. Often read as the first sketch of The Great Gatsby.

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  Format: PDF 31 pages 0.27 MB

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• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  

  Benjamin Button is born an old man and grows younger every year, permanently out of step with his family and his century. Fitzgerald's best known fantasy story, later adapted for film.

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  Format: PDF 40 pages 0.78 MB

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• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

  

  John Unger visits a schoolmate whose family owns a mountain made of a single diamond and guards it by any means available. A satire of American wealth pushed to its furthest extreme.

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  Format: PDF 50 pages 0.35 MB

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• May Day

  

  Over one long night in New York in 1919, returning soldiers, a debutante ball and a raid on a socialist newspaper collide. Fitzgerald's most ambitious early story about a city coming apart.

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  Format: PDF 61 pages 0.99 MB

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• The Ice Palace

  

  Sally Carrol leaves the Georgia heat to marry a man from Minnesota and finds a winter colder than she expected in more ways than one. A story about the distance between two Americas.

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  Format: PDF 41 pages 0.8 MB

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• Bernice Bobs Her Hair

  

  Bernice arrives for a summer visit as a social failure, gets remade by her cousin Marjorie and ends up learning more than she was meant to. Fitzgerald's sharpest comedy about popularity and revenge.

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  Format: PDF 27 pages 0.2 MB

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• Tarquin of Cheapside

  

  A man is chased through the night streets of Elizabethan London and hidden in an attic, in a short strange piece that ends on a literary revelation. One of Fitzgerald's few historical experiments.

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  Format: PDF 9 pages 0.15 MB

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Fitzgerald died in 1940 believing he had been forgotten, with The Great Gatsby out of print and Zelda in a hospital in North Carolina. He is now read more than almost any other American novelist of his century, which is its own kind of Fitzgerald ending.

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  American novelist, Herman Melville is the author of Moby Dick. A whale-hunting story on the surface, a reflection on obsession and the human condition underneath.

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