Flappers and Philosophers

Flappers and Philosophers
The cover of the 1920 first edition
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover artistW. E. Hill
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort stories
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
ISBN978-1406509564

Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of eight short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Each of the stories had originally appeared, independently, in either The Saturday Evening Post, Scribner's Magazine, or The Smart Set.[1][2]

The volume includes "The Ice Palace," regarded as one of Fitzgerald's finest short works.[3]

  1. ^ Bryer 2000, p. 1069.
  2. ^ Eble 1963, p. 54: The collection was published on September 10, 1920
  3. ^ Eble 1963, p. 56: "...as good a story as Fitzgerald ever wrote...clearly his best" of the stories in the collection.