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What does it cost to become someone new when money, fashion, and other people's approval set the rules?
In Flappers and Philosophers, F. Scott Fitzgerald follows young Americans who want more than the lives laid out for them. In The Offshore Pirate, restless heiress Ardita Farnam meets an unusual pirate. In The Ice Palace, Sally Carrol Happer leaves Georgia for her fiancé's northern home and wonders where she belongs.
These eight stories move through a world of dances, restless hearts, and sharp social divisions after the First World War. Bernice Bobs Her Hair follows a shy visitor who longs for her cousin Marjorie Harvey's popularity. Head and Shoulders brings bookish Horace Tarbox into contact with lively dancer Marcia Meadow, while Benediction turns toward religion and family.
What you’ll discover
- Rebellion on the water Meet Ardita, a sharp-tongued heiress whose boredom meets the promise of an unusual pirate.
- The pull of home Follow Sally Carrol north as love raises questions about the place she belongs.
- The price of popularity Enter Bernice's world, where a haircut can change a girl's standing among her peers.
- Books meet ordinary life Watch Horace's world of ideas meet Marcia's appetite for people and the present moment.
- Lives shaped by class Explore how money and fashion decide who belongs and who remains on the outside.
Who will love it
For readers who love short fiction, the 1920s and Fitzgerald's early work, and anyone curious about young women's lives in the Jazz Age. These stories explore love, rebellion, fashion and the wish to be someone new.
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- A bored heiress meets a polite pirate
- A Southern girl goes north into the cold
- Strange marriages and a cursed bowl
- Bernice learns the price of being popular
- Faith, war and fighting back against fate
- What the stories share and how they work
Who’s who
- Ardita FarnamA rich, sharp-tongued young woman, bored with every suitor, who wants a man who is not dull.
- Sally Carrol HapperA warm, dreamy girl from Georgia who is engaged to a Northerner and wonders where she belongs.
- Harry BellamySally Carrol's fiance, proud of his cold, energetic northern home and eager to show it to her.
- Horace TarboxA boy genius at Yale who lives among books and knows little of ordinary life.
- Marcia MeadowA lively stage dancer who cares more for people and the moment than for ideas.
- BerniceA shy girl, visiting her cousin, who longs to be as popular as the other girls.
- Marjorie HarveyBernice's pretty, confident cousin, the queen of the local dances, who is used to being admired.
- Warren McIntyreA young man at the dances whom both cousins notice.
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Flappers e filosofi
by F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920
A shy girl learns the price of popularity as a daring haircut changes her standing.
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A bored heiress meets a polite pirate
The collection opens with The Offshore Pirate. Ardita Farnam is a rich, bright, restless young woman. She is sailing on her uncle's yacht off the coast of Florida, and she is tired of everything. She spends her days smoking, reading and mocking the men who try to court her.
Her uncle is a stern, old-fashioned man who disapproves of her ways. The two argue, and Ardita answers him with cool wit. She does not seem to care what anyone expects of a girl her age. Fitzgerald paints her in a few lines, and she is clearly the kind of young woman the book's title is aiming at.
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What is Flappers and Philosophers about?
It is a collection of eight short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. They follow young Americans after the First World War as they deal with love, money, fashion and the wish to be someone new.
What does the title Flappers and Philosophers mean?
Flappers were fashionable young women of the early 1920s who bobbed their hair and broke old rules. The philosophers are thinkers such as Horace Tarbox. The title joins play with thought.
Which stories are in Flappers and Philosophers?
The eight stories are The Offshore Pirate, The Ice Palace, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Benediction, Dalrymple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists.
The author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896–1940 · American novelist
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He lived in the United States and France. He published This Side of Paradise in 1920, The Beautiful and Damned in 1922, and The Great Gatsby in 1925. He died in Hollywood in 1940.
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