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I'd Die for You: And Other Lost Stories
I'd Die for You: And Other Lost Stories | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. It comprises sixteen finished stories and one partial short fiction, which provides an intimate look at his creative process and shows the promise in a surviving draft. Some were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication, but the vagaries of magazine life meant they ultimately did not appear in print. Others did not fit with the public perception of Fitzgerald's style in the 1930s. These dazzling uncut gems, the very last of his completed fictions as yet unpublished, demonstrate Fitzgerald's precision and imaginative power as a writer at the forefront of modern literature, and offer a fascinating insight into his artistry.
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mikagatsby
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Pickpick

Rating: 4/5 stars.

I always say this: I love everything about F. Scott Fitzgerald. His words. His penchant for stories that he had told and written. Just wow.

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Leftcoastzen
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When a friend gets you a gift and you just have to say “Thanks you know me so well!” Yay ,Puzzles.

batsy 😍 5y
Weaponxgirl That‘s so awesome! 5y
BiblioLitten 😍 5y
MelleDelValle Gorgeous! 5y
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LapReader
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Pickpick

Bloody Litsy cut off the tagged book. Found another op shop near my Gran‘s place. It was $10 a bag but I restrained myself as I had to fly home the next day and was worried about luggage weight. Turns out I had plenty of space 😭

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erzascarletbookgasm
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Thanks to google, I came across this book, a collection of previously unpublished tales drawn from Fitzgerald‘s stay in the mountains of North Carolina when his health, and of his wife Zelda, was falling apart.

#PrinceofJuly #iwoulddieforu

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💜 never heard of it! 6y
vkois88 Never knew about this one either 6y
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mhillis
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This is for my long term project of reading all of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s work. I rarely buy books these days, but who could pass up this gorgeous cover? #coverlove #readingresolutions

DivineDiana Agree! ❤️ 6y
BekaReid That cover totally caught my eye! Sweet! 6y
Jess_Read_This Gorgeous edition! 6y
Nute Yes! 6y
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Lidia
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Leftcoastzen
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Pickpick

It was great to see photographs of Fitzgerald I have never seen and some of the writing is very good . But a warning, more for fans of his work than the general reader. Some of the film synopsis stuff was fluff , yet in context,writers were scrambling to make some money in the depression.The biographical notes and info. about how these stories did not get published interesting .

elkeOriginal @Jess_Read_This do you have this?! Seems perfect for you the hardcore Fitzgerald fan! 7y
Jess_Read_This @elkeo ❤️❤️❤️I do have this one! I was so stoked when it came out. You know me well! 7y
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bookish.and.proud
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I just love everything Fitzgerald 💛

#read #book #fscottfitzgerald #iddieforyou

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Book_and_Cranny
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3 subway stops • 2 bookstores • 1 new book from an author who hasn't been on this Earth for 77 years • unlimited excitement
I like to picture what Fitzgerald would be like with a new book release in the way we've come to know him- drunk and impatiently awaiting the reviews and sales of his new release.
Don't worry Scott- the world finally realized you're one of the best

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Leftcoastzen
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I was going on a book buying diet BUT .....sigh . At least it will be part of the permanent collection.Bookmark Changing Hands Phoenix .#indie #fitzgerald

Jess_Read_This You won't regret that purchase! 💕 7y
ValerieAndBooks This is very high up on my to-buy list! Love the bookmark 😂! 7y
batsy Lol that bookmark 7y
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Jess_Read_This
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"Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life" -The Beautiful and the Damned

I made the Rose Colored Glasses cocktail per @ScribnerBooks recommendation/recipe paired with this delightful read. My PSA: you won't feel rosy the next after too many of these. Pair and drink wisely, friends! ❤️

#CocktailsandBooks #FScottFitzgerald #RoseColoredGlasses #Cheers

Zelma Looks like the perfect combo! 🍸 7y
Jess_Read_This @Zelma Thank you! It was! A very potent drink though 😂 7y
ValerieAndBooks Ooh! Is the recipe in the book itself? This is on my TBR list! 7y
Jess_Read_This @ValerieAndBooks No! Scribner Books posted a video tutorial making it on their Facebook page earlier last week and I thought it sounded interesting. You soak raspberries in creme de cassis for 30 minutes then add champagne. It was good! I think I used too much of the cassis in that glass though 😂 7y
ValerieAndBooks Definitely going to look it up ! 🍸 7y
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Hobbinol
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Mehso-so

While you don't have to go and "set the watchman" by these stories, the quality ranges from great to poor-- some are really just sketches for films. And you can't help reading between the lines and wondering if Fitzgerald attempted to make a Faustian bargain with Hollywood and suffered for it. The NYT asked a biographer to review this book, and while I don't agree that the introductions are better than the stories, there is plenty to snark about.

ValerieAndBooks Aww. I think I still want this book anyway 😊! 7y
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Hobbinol
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... the patient was in an increasingly impatient and nervous mood.

"Mr. Monson, you can't cook with a temperature of a 103."

"Why not? Think of the Huns. They used raw steak for their saddles all day-- that broke down the fiber-- just like a modern kitchen range."

"Mr. Monson!"

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Painting by Deborah DeWit (she does a lot of bookishly themed paintings).

Hobbinol Even though this is my first day all week without a fever myself, I still found that line about the Huns strange. Those poor horses!!! Can you imagine?! 7y
saresmoore I'm glad you're on the mend! I've come across a few bizarre Hun references myself lately. 7y
Hobbinol You really are good at these serendipitous connections @saresmoore ! 7y
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saresmoore My job title in the Universe is officially "Tugger of Literary Golden Strands". In worldly circumstances, I'm just a "Domestic Goddess". (edited) 7y
Hobbinol @saresmoore 🙌🏻Tug away! 7y
Suet624 I've ridden horses and I would never want to sit on a meat saddle! (That sounds a little dirty, now that I've put it in writing.) (edited) 7y
Hobbinol @Suet624 😂🤣😂I actually laughed out loud at this... thanks: I needed that! 7y
Suet624 👍happy to help 😀 7y
batsy Lol @Suet624. But honestly. Raw meat saddle! How bizarre. (Not that cooked would be better!?) 7y
Hobbinol @batsy I prefer my saddles medium rare thank you... 7y
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Hobbinol
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"The trouble was not so much the lack of boys as the impossibility of doing anything gay and glamorous without boys."

After spending most of the night up with a persistent cough, I took the afternoon off work to convalesce. I lounged by a huge picture window while a storm raged outside and I just read and read and... coughed.

LeahBergen Aww! Feel better soon. 😘 7y
saresmoore This quote! Sorry you're under the weather. You are still as charming as ever & you have my prayers for a quick recovery! 7y
Lindy Great quote! Have you got honey and lemon for your throat? 7y
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Hobbinol @LeahBergen Thanks so much sug'! This has turned out to be a not-so-common-cold. I had to work all weekend (imagine the Adam's Family's Lurch greeting customers in a genealogical department-- that's what I felt like). But now I think I'd feel sorrier for myself had I been healthy and able to work than miss reading during a good thunderstorm like this one! 7y
Hobbinol @saresmoore Oh you're so sweet you're going to make me all verklempt! Thank you so much!😘 7y
Megabooks Sorry you're under the weather. 😘😘 7y
Hobbinol Yes! You are such a good mamacita ! I'd been drinking hot tea and honey, but I didn't think of the lemon! Brilliant! Thank you! (Forgot to tag you @Lindy ) (edited) 7y
tpixie Agree with @Lindy -honey and lemon for a cough ! Get well soon! Sounds like you needed the afternoon off to rest and recuperate! 7y
Hobbinol @Booksandcooks Thank you so much. I appreciate your good wishes! With all this good Litsy-Love, I'm starting to feel a little a bit better already (as I tuck my handkerchief back into my smoking jacket).😘 7y
Hobbinol @tpixie I don't know why I didn't turn to you all first! Many thanks!!😘 7y
tpixie Lol! ❤️💚❤️ 7y
Mimi28 Feel better soon!! 7y
ValerieAndBooks Hope you feel better soon, please take it easy until you do!! 7y
Suet624 I hope you can sleep tonight with that cough. Some Mentholatum or Vicks Vaporub on your chest might help. Best wishes. ❤️ 7y
Hobbinol @Mimi28 Thank you! I'm gonna do my best! 7y
Hobbinol @ValerieAndBooks Thank you! So sweet!😘 7y
Hobbinol @Suet624 Ya know? That's a really good idea. I think I will break out the Vaporub! Thank you! 7y
Suet624 If you have a little lavender oil put that in the Vicks. That'll help you sleep better too. 7y
batsy Ugh, a persistent cough is the worst. I hope you feel better soon. In my experience the best, most soothing remedy for a cough is a hot toddy 😉 Bonus: it also helps you sleep! 7y
Hobbinol @Suet624 I don't know if I should be embarrassed or proud of the fact that I don't have any lavender oil!😆I do grow fresh lavender-- I should learn how to make some. Thanks! 7y
Hobbinol @batsy Good idea! Have you heard of the Guggle Muggle? Take the juice of one lemon, juice of one orange, juice of 1 grapefruit. Heat with honey to taste and then add a shot of your favorite spirit! I forgot all about it until you mentioned it☺️ 7y
DivineDiana Oh dear! Feel better! 7y
Hobbinol @DivineDiana Better today thanks. Hoping for much better tomorrow!😊 7y
batsy @Hobbinol No I have not! Great name 😁 That sounds delicious. I think we should drink that regularly to prevent colds. 7y
DivineDiana Glad to hear you are recovering.Filed away recipe for Guggle Muggle for future reference! 7y
UwannaPublishme Hope you're feeling better! 🌷 7y
Hobbinol @UwannaPublishme Thank you and I love the little flower😊 7y
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Hobbinol
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Another find while on the website Ancestry today: These are passport photos of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald.

#WritersOnVacation

LeahBergen They look so much more dashing than I do in MY passport photo. Mine just needs the number bar to look like a mugshot. 7y
saresmoore @LeahBergen 😂 But I bet you have better handwriting! 7y
LeahBergen @saresmoore Well, I certainly think it's more legible! 😄 7y
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ValerieAndBooks I appreciate seeing this, as I'm a bit obsessed with Fitzgerald right now! I still need to get that book tagged, have you started into it yet? 7y
Hobbinol @ValerieAndBooks I actually thought of you when I found it!!! I've read two stories so far and I loved both of them. 7y
Hobbinol @LeahBergen 😔My passport expired... and I'm stuck here with Donald Trump!!! 7y
Hobbinol @saresmoore I bet she does too! I bet she has different nibs for different occasions. 7y
ValerieAndBooks @Hobbinol 😊😘. Glad it's good so far! 7y
MicheleinPhilly @LeahBergen SAME. And now you're not allowed to smile for the photo which makes it even worse. I should post a picture of it. It's atrocious. 7y
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Lidia
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I'm so excited to start this book I've been waiting for it and finally got my copy yesterday. It just went to the top of my TBR list. #Bookmail #Maymostanticipated #Maybookflowers

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HotCocoaReads
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I've loved, loved this book of lost, short fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love Great Gatsby and many of these stories, especially I'd Die for You, had the heart and beauty of The Great Gatsby. Most of these stories didn't sell because they were departures from Fitzgerald's normal style or they weren't timely for the audiences of the papers and magazines where he normally sold his stories. I also loved the biographical information! ❤️

Jess_Read_This I feel exactly the same way as I'm reading this one. 💕 7y
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HotCocoaReads
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And now suddenly he is there in a tail coat, sure of himself, unworried, undisguised, picking her out of the crowd with a look of expectation.

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Jess_Read_This
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"..it isn't particularly likely that I'll write a great many more stories about young love. I was tagged with that by my first writings up to 1925." -F.S.F.

•He's a master of capturing the bold and the subtle aspects of love in my opinion. My #bookmail arrived and I can't wait to dive in. Even the smell of the copy is superb. Anyone else like to smell their books? ?
#WeSwoonforFScott #classic #fscottfitzgerald #love #shortstory #scribners

Literaryunicorn Yes!! Guilty of smelling! Especially used and library books! 7y
JazzFeathers Both my sister and my boss (l work in a bookshop) 'sniff' new books. I'm the only sane one ;) 7y
Jess_Read_This @JazzFeathers Maybe you haven't sniffed the right one yet? 😂😂 7y
Jess_Read_This @Literaryunicorn Yes! That used book smell is amazing. 7y
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Hobbinol
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Book mail! Just got my copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's lost stories and I wasn't expecting such a charming publication. It is full of great thumbnail photos of Fitzgerald like this one where he's mugging for the photo booth camera! There are additional pics of his original manuscripts, plus notes! I wasn't expecting any of that for a short story collection. I read one of the stories last year in the New Yorker and it was wonderful. Very pleased!

DivineDiana What a fantastic surprise! 📚 7y
Lidia I want to order this book now! 7y
Suet624 That's kind of a freaky photo. 7y
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Kelly ❤️❤️ 7y
Jess_Read_This It's a great copy! I am just loving it too! 7y
ValerieAndBooks I would never have guessed this pic was of Scott! Need to get this soon. 7y
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Jess_Read_This
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📬💌📬Today's the day! I am looking forward to my #bookmail when I get home. 💕 Until then, just looking at few pieces of my Fitzgerald collection.

#fscottfitzgerald #shortstory #icon #americanlit #flapper #wordsmith #masteroftheshortstory #fangirl #booklover #scribnerbooks #WeSwoonforFScott

Cinfhen Very exciting 💕 7y
LeahBergen 😍😍 7y
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spinesvines
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Book mail and Fridays are the perfect combination. Thank you @ScribnerBooks & @books_with_taylor Cheers to the weekend 🍷
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#spinesvines #books #wine #iddieforyou #fscottfitzgerald #fridayreads

Jess_Read_This Oh! So excited for you! I can't wait to read this one. Anxiously awaiting my preorder copy. 💕📚💕 7y
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Jess_Read_This
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I am so excited for this one's release on April 25th. Preordered and waiting for my future #bookmail. I am so intrigued to read these short stories. Mark your calendars, Fitzgerald fans! 🍸📚🍸

#icon #jazzage #fscottfitzgerald #greatamericannovelist #classic #shortstory #favoriteauthor #scribnerbooks #WeSwoonforFScott

ValerieAndBooks Stacking this!! 7y
Jess_Read_This @ValerieAndBooks 💞📚💞 I'm pretty excited for this one! 7y
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ladyclassics
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Almost 100 years later...."The IOU," one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's recently uncovered "lost stories," was published by "The New Yorker" and is available to readers for the first time!! It's a satirical short story that is quite different from the conventional Fitzgerald reads~~but eloquently mocks the fake news in 1920's America. It's hysterically relatable to modern times, not to mention an enjoyable little read for all Fitzgerald fans!

kspenmoll Thx for heads up!!! 7y
ladyclassics @kspenmoll of course!! It's something everyone must know ;) 7y
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Hobbinol
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Since I've been away a while, I'll be posting throughout the day as time allows the many #2017MostAnticipatedBooks I have on my list. At the top of my list is this collection of lost stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'd Die For You, to be released in April of 2017. April showers can't come fast enough as far as I'm concerned!

Faibka Great! Thanks for the heads up! 7y
LeahBergen Oooo! 😍 7y
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