The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921–1924

As indicated by the volume’s title, the stories contained in The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921–1924 cover the period from 1921 to 1924, which was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most prolific period of magazine publishing. Readers will find well-known stories such as “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”; stories widely acknowledged as significant to Fitzgerald’s career, such as “Absolution,” which was part of an early version of The Great Gatsby; and less frequently taught stories such as “His Russet Witch” and “Gretchen’s Forty Winks.” Fitzgerald’s magazine career, and thus the focus of this volume, included contributions to The Metropolitan (stories and the serialization of The Beautiful and Damned), Hearst’s International, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as less frequent contributions to other venues. As the volume’s coeditor Jennifer Nolan points out, this period of Fitzgerald’s...