The Offshore Pirate, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Offshore Pirate, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Offshore Pirate
Classic Tales Edition

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Unabridged: 1 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Published: 06/12/2011


Synopsis

Ardita Farnam, flapper and demimondaine, has a feisty will and a fiery tongue. But when 7 hulking musicians seize her yacht while her rich uncle goes ashore, she soon discovers the limits of her persuasive powers, and a battle of wits begins.

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 itsdanixx on March 10, 2020

3.5 Stars. The first of the eight stories in Flappers and Philosophers tells the tale of a beautiful but bored rich young flapper who’s lounging on her uncle’s yacht when it’s overrun by pirates.......more

Goodreads review by Robin on May 13, 2017

My favourite story by Fitzgerald. There is a passage in there about bravery that was especially impactful to me. Shame he ended it so awfully because of pressure of his publishers/the public, or out of spite or whatever. Still, this is how romance should be done.......more

Goodreads review by Thibault on August 10, 2022

A bored and spoiled girl’s ship gets overrun with pirates and she falls in love with the captain. Basically a cute, charming and well written little romance story with a good twist at the end.......more

Goodreads review by Seher on July 15, 2022

Nasıldı; ‘… bir düş gibi ince’. Düş nasıldı peki? İnce’nin içine sığmış tüm erkek karakterler, el birliğiyle mi desem, bir çeşit Ali Cengiz oyunuyla mı desem İnce’nin içindeki tek kadın karakter Ardita Farnam’ı baş göz edip, başını bağlayıverdiler(?) Durum budur. Yıldızlar cümle içindeki tatlı sıfatla......more

Goodreads review by Abby on June 29, 2024

Absolutely adored this clever short story.......more