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All the Sad Young Men is a collection of short fiction by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The stories originally appeared independently in popular literary journals and were first collected in February 1926 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
The original periodical publication and dates are indicated below.
"The Rich Boy" (Redbook, January/February 1926)
"Winter Dreams" ( Metropolitan, December 1922)
"The Baby Party" (Hearst's International Cosmopolitan, February 1925)
"Absolution" (American Mercury, June 1924)
"Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les" (McCall's, July 1924)
"The Adjuster" (American Mercury, 1926)
"Hot and Cold Blood" (Hearst's International Cosmopolitan, August, 1923)
"The Sensible Thing" (Liberty, July 15, 1924)
"Gretchen's Forty Winks" (Saturday Evening Post, March 15, 1924)
In a letter to Scribner editor-in-chief Maxwell Perkins, Fitzgerald wrote that "seven of the stories deal with young men of my generation in rather unhappy moods" to justify the title of the collection. Biographer Kenneth Eble notes that the volume's title reflects with precision the final years of Fitzgerald's youth in the late 1920s: "All the Sad Young Men captures in a phrase the feeling he had in losing the most vibrant experiences of his life before age took them away."
Fitzgerald wrote the stories at a time of disillusionment. He was in financial difficulty, he believed his wife Zelda to be romantically involved with another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play The Vegetable had been a failure.
ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN
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