Flappers and Philosophers

Flappers and Philosophers are the tales of youth, mostly… Stories of young dreamers and their beautiful dreams being broken. And I admired how excellently the spirit of that rather rebellious epoch was preserved in the tales. Ardita scrutinized him carefully — and classed him immediately as a romant......more

DNF The first story in this collection, THE OFFSHORE PIRATE, did nothing to alter my opinion that Fitzgerald was a tedious, meandering, mostly uninteresting writer who used too many words to get to the point. Others have a different opinion and enjoy his writing. Someone whose opinions I value sugges......more

This little book of eight short stories took me about a week to read, and now I’m very sorry that it’s over. All of the stories were very entertaining and vivid. It made me feel like I was a nineteen-year-old girl in the first or second decade of the twentieth century. Many of the stories in this bo......more

Flappers and Philosophers: [URL not allowed] I must admit what drew me to the collection, despite of course the name of Fitzgerald, is the title. I mean, come on, Flappers and Philosophers is simply genial. I doubt anyone in the 1920s would ever use the word philosopher do desc......more

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose is like pizza and sex. Even when it’s bad, it’s good. Flappers and Philosophers, published in 1920, is a collection of mostly forgettable stories that lionize the rich and rarely challenge the reader’s world view. But that only explains why they’re annoying, not why they’......more