Mr. Icky

Name: Mr. Icky
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781662066924

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Series: Tales of the Jazz Age

Narrator: Full Cast

Unabridged: 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 12/17/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

This has the distinction of being the only magazine piece ever written in a New York hotel. The business was done in a bedroom in the Knickerbocker, and shortly afterward that memorable hostelry closed its doors forever. When a fitting period of mourning had elapsed it was published in the Smart Set.This short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in his Tales of the Jazz Age collection.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Benjamin on April 02, 2019

This one is both hard to like or dislike. It's stage-play presentation was annoying to me as I had to read it out loud to my wife. But even just reading it, I guess it was kind of ... average. Just a bunch of brats growing up and forgetting their gentle father who stays at home and wallows in self p......more

Goodreads review by Beatrice on June 29, 2022

A bizarre little story presented like a play. Mr. Icky is pottering and differing among the pots and dods.......more

Goodreads review by Deity World on December 23, 2022

An interesting short play wasn’t expected to see at the end (the play can go on indefinitely) did he want us to finish it for him?......more

Goodreads review by Cristy on May 04, 2017

Great Great awesome terrific read would recommend reading have fun f Scott Fitzgerald is amazing and a classic read and a great escape......more