Read this when I was 18. Very impressive! Scott Fitzgerald clearly also was a master in short stories.

The Ice Palace is the reason why I am giving this five stars. This is not to say that the other stories are bad, in fact some are very good, but none achieve the beauty and simplicity of a short story quite like The Ice Palace.

This is my second read for Fitzgerald and i usually prefer novels, but i enjoyed these stories. This edition of the book contains five stories and each one tackles with a different aspect from the American society in the 1920s. In the first story, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" Fitzgerald gave us an image about the wealthy poeple and how they can control everything and everyone with money. Though he always made his rich characters seem fascinating, i sensed a bit of satire behind the lines, li...

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a brilliant satirist: sharp-eyed and sharp-witted…John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades — a small town on the Mississippi River — for several generations. John’s father had held the amateur golf championship through many a heated contest; Mrs. Unger was known “from hot-box to hot-bed,” as the local phrase went, for her political addresses; and young John T. Unger, who had just turned sixteen, had danced all the latest dances from New York befo...

Stories as big as life.

Featured in my Top 20 Books I Read in 2017Video reviewNever had I imagined the scope of Fitzgerald's writing powers; not in terms of style - obviously the man writes prose the way Cova makes panettone - but of genre. There's Vernian sci-fi and ghost stories in here, alongside the more famous Jazz-age tales, and the guy is flawless in everything he tries.

I know this was written in the 1920 and it's supposed to be camp or whatever but what the fuckall the other reviews seem to be praising it and maybe I just didn't get it but I just. Slow blinking.

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz to me is the marquee story of the 20's. The language and prose is crisp and clear, and you can image the descriptions as art direction for a tux-and-flapper-dress movie or a series of art deco murals. The story is a great blend of high adventure as well as exploitive campiness. While the other stories still have that distinct art deco elegance, the Diamond story is just so over the top, like a Hollywood blockbuster.

This edition consists of five short stories. They always talk about Fitzgerald as a writer that defined the Jazz Age and etc but for me that is not that important. What draws me to his writing is probably the way he creates his characters, sometimes managing to capture their very essence. I’ll give you a fair warning. This is not going to be a short review. First things first.The Diamond As Big As The Ritz 5/5Beautifully written and absolutely unsettling because of its implications. One of them:...

This is a story about a school boy, John Unger, from a respectable rich family in Hades, a small town on the Mississippi River. The period is early 1920s or thereabouts. At 16, John was sent to St Midas’ school in Boston for a New England education which is a necessity for all promising young men. At the school, he met Percy Washington, a very rich student, even by St Midas’ standard, judging by his clothes. However, Percy stayed aloof from everyone and the only person he was slightly friendly w...

After reading this one, I must say that Fitzgerald seems to be just as brilliant when it comes to writing short stories. I always thought of him as a novelist, but now I see that is not where his talent ends. The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night are, to this day, one of my favourite American novels. He is a great writer, no doubt about that. I will probably attempt to read all of his works, as I usually do, when I really really like some writer. People always talk about Fitzgerald as a write...

Fitzgerald is one of my favourite writers and his short work is every bit equal to his longer length novels. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz takes Fitzgerald into the realms of the fantastic, with a rich, supercilious dynasty, in an opulent hideaway. Their vast wealth means that they are aloof and precluded from a world that they've exploited through their greedy and bullish capitalist ideals. That is until all Hell breaks loose. This is a wonderful novella with a scathing attack on capitalism, c...

Jewels are absolutely useless. What purpose do they serve other than to decorate? to pronounce excess? Is there any other possession adorned with such all-consuming envy while simultaneously void of all practical use? Jewels and gold are as intrinsically meaningless in backing wealth as numbers on paper. They have cavernous souls which prey mischievously on Man's affinity for power. They fill the void of there existence by manipulating the weakness and vice of mankind. They are the instigator; a...

Having read The Great Gatsby some years ago, and been unable (in spades) to understand the fuss, I thought to give a further chance to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Sometimes, I thought, a writer you dislike from years back says something to you when read years later. Sorry to say, with The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories, in the Books Box Jury all three of my votes come decidedly down on the MISS side. The Cut Glass Bowl is a bowl given to Mrs Harold Piper as a malicious wedding gift by an

No one captures the essence and glamour of the 1920s quite like Fitzgerald. I’ve never been a fan of short stories until now, this was a pleasantly surprising read.Each short story was beautifully written but ‘Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ was by far my favourite, touching on class inequality and the idea that being rich comes with power and therefore the ability to get away with more.

Every time I drink, I drink like an alcoholic.-Chanel West Coast ⚫ The Cut-Glass Bowl: 3.8/5⚫ May Day: 3.8/5⚫ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: 4.3/5⚫ The Rich Boy: 3.6/5⚫ Crazy Sunday: 3.5/5⚫ An Alcoholic Case: 3.3/5⚫ The Less of Happiness: 4/5⚫ The Lost Decade: 2.4/5⚫ Babylon Revisited: 3/5I’m watching The Sinner Season 3 so you are not getting a review… god I love Matt Bomer…

This was actually a revisiting of an old dear friend - and i so am glad i did it! Everyone always talks, raves, pens essays, articles and books about F. Scott´s Great Gatsby or Tender is the Night...yet somehow his short stories are always "forgotten", even by those that are fans of him.True, Fitzgerald didn't think of himself as a good writer of short stories, and admitted to doing them for the money...and yet, in most of them you will find, in a more youthful less bitter manner, the many featu...

I prefer Ernest Hemingway over F. Scott Fitzgerald, and still do. However, this gem of short stories will have me reading more novels by Fitzgerald. It may be my own prejudice that has kept me from reading a lot of Fitzgerald, since Hemingway thought he was a drunken hack. What I saw in these short stories, shows me that my favorite author may have been wrong. Don't look for any happy endings in any of the stories here; there aren't any. Bernice Bobs Her Hair has the most satisfying ending. Hell...

you get the usual Fitzgerald jazz age stories drifting rich whites longing for more than their material wealth provides (a little over these), but you also get some seriously imaginative stories, the titular story of this collection being an extremely fun adventure story! all written in that decadent Fitzgerald prose style, with paragraphs exploding off of the page into a luxurious warmth that simultaneously takes your breath away. one major complaint i have, and this honestly pertains to most h...

Whatever “it” is, F. Scott Fitzgerald has it. I’ve read three or four individual works by him now, and every one of them has been a cracker. They all have that same level of quality that we get from The Great Gatsby, and so while he’s certainly not the kind of writer who’s perfect for everyone, if you like one of his books then you’ll probably like all of them.This little collection contains seven stories and is the first volume in what I guess amounts to the collected stories of F. Scott Fitzge...