Lavishly produced edition with flaps, black and white plates, part of Alma Classics collection of Fitzgeralds works. Published soon after Fitzgeralds debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the authors first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in Bernice Bobs Her Hair the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while The Ice Palace features a Southern belle whose marriage to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. Also containing The Offshore Pirate, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists, this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgeralds development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.