The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1915. Orson Welles adapted the story into a radio play in 1945 and another version was presented three times on the program Escape between 1947 and 1949. A teleplay version was broadcast on Kraft Theatre in 1955. The story's sisters, Kismine and Jasmine, were portrayed by Lee Remick and Elizabeth Montgomery, who were unknowns of 20 and 22 at the time. Mickey Mouse No. 47 (Apr./May 1956) contains a retelling of Fitzgerald's story under the title "The Mystery of Diamond Mountain", scripted by William F. Nolan and Charles Beaumont and illustrated by Paul Murry. Jimmy Buffett recounts the story in the song "Diamond As Big As The Ritz" from his 1995 album Barometer Soup. Famous novells of the author F. S. Fitzgerald: "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Great Gatsby", "Tender Is the Night", "The Last Tycoon", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "May Day", "The Rich Boy".


The Diamond As Big As the Ritz

The Diamond As Big As the Ritz

Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780486299914

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Six entrancing tales represent the essential Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age spirit: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "May Day," "The Jelly-Bean," and "The Offshore Pirate."


A Study Guide for F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

A Study Guide for F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2015-03-13

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1410335925

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A Study Guide for F.Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.


The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13:

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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was released as a motion picture late in 2008 starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and directed by David Fincher. The screenplay differs greatly from the short story. Only the title, Benjamin's name, and most aspects of the aging process are retained in the screenplay. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s.


Tales of the Jazz Age

Tales of the Jazz Age

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-02-23

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 030777922X

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Evoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer’s most famous and celebrated stories. In “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an extraordinary child is born an old man, growing younger as the world ages around him. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” a fable of excess and greed, shows two boarding school classmates mired in deception as they make their fortune in gemstones. And in the classic novella “May Day,” debutantes dance the night away as war veterans and socialists clash in the streets of New York. Opening the book is a playful and irreverent set of notes from the author, documenting the real-life pressures and experiences that shaped these stories, from his years at Princeton to his cravings for luxury to the May Day Riots of 1919. Taken as a whole, this collection brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. Its 1922 publication furthered Fitzgerald's reputation as a master storyteller, and its legacy staked his place as the spokesman of an age.


Babylon Revisited

Babylon Revisited

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 9180947336

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»Babylon Revisited« is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in 1931. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His legendary marriage to Zelda Montgomery, along with their acquaintances with notable figures such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and their lifestyle in 1920s Paris, has become iconic. A master of the short story genre, it is logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].


The Rich Boy

The Rich Boy

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: East West Studio

Published: 2018-04-25

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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The Rich Boy is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection All the Sad Young Men. The Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli describes the story as "an extension of The Great Gatsby, enlarging the examination of the effects of wealth on character.


Bernice Bobs Her Hair Illustrated

Bernice Bobs Her Hair Illustrated

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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This is a powerful story about a renowned mystery writer, Sebastian, from New York, an unsolved triple homicide in a mansion in Marblehead Neck, MA in 2006, and, a romantic ghost Jenny. She, her boyfriend and her mother were murdered in that mansion. In January of 2010, the mystery peaks the interest of Sebastian, so his goal is to help find the murderer and write a book. Hes also a criminal psychologist with a masters degree, a psychic medium and clairvoyant. Sebastian moves to Marblehead and attends a pitch party and meets, Samantha, a romance novelist with magnetic blue eyes, dark hair and a bad temper. He later meets beautiful Katherine who rents him a spooky Victorian mansion. While he lives there, he encounters Jennys pale lifelike ghostly apparitions which his life becomes entwined with, and, her spiritual power gives him strange love pleasure that shocks him. Other powerful ghost sightings follow and Katherine and Samantha seek psychotherapy. When Sebastian plans to move out of the mansion, he gets a puzzling surprise. A FASCINATING ROMANTIC GHOST STORY AND A MURDER MYSTERY THAT IS SPELLBINDING!