Description

The Dust on a Butterfly's Wings represents a comprehensive attempt to gather the very best of the forgotten early works of F. Scott Fitzgerald into a single volume. These short stories have for decades enjoyed a certain status as "lost" pieces, due to the author's own failure to reprint them in either of his first two compilations, Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), and the tendency of editors in later collections to favor more celebrated titles from the rich Fitzgerald canon. In addition to making these works available in a digital format for the very first time, this volume affords a unique glimpse into the extraordinary early career of this elegant voice of the Lost Generation, beginning with a series of brilliant short stories published just as his masterpiece The Great Gatsby was taking shape and reaching back to a set of exceptional writings dating from his final months in college. (Text excerpted from the foreword by the collection's editor, P. C. Weber).

All proceeds from the sale of this book are being donated to charity to help fight the current worldwide epidemic of tuberculosis (TB).

PUBLICATION DATE: May 22, 2012

ISBN: 978-0-9826517-0-4

PAGES: 175

Contents

"The Popular Girl" (The Saturday Evening Post, February 1922)

"Two for a Cent" (Metropolitan Magazine, April 1922)

"The Smilers" (The Smart Set, June 1920)

"Myra Meets His Family" (The Saturday Evening Post, March 1920)

"The Débutante" (The Smart Set, November 1919)

"Babes in the Woods" (The Smart Set, September 1919)

"The Spire and the Gargoyle" (Nassau Literary Magazine, February 1917)

NOTE: The versions of "The Débutante" and "Babes in the Woods" in The Dust on a Butterfly's Wings are distinct from those in The Princeton Collection.

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Help Fight Global TB

The ongoing global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) generates over 10,000,000 new cases worldwide every year and claims over 1,200,000 lives, including 150,000 individuals with HIV‑AIDS. P. C. Weber and LGC Publishing donate all profits from the sale of their books to the Stop TB Partnership (website), the organization spearheading the campaign to eradicate this disease from the developing world. Thank you for your support.