Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, "marks an advance over This Side of Paradise," Edmund Wilson wrote...

Available now for the first time on compact disc, this title offers all 21 stories of the award-winning cassette, along with a recent short story by Pam Houston, "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had". This lively audiobook features a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the short story genre.

Updike introduces and reads some of these stories, which he selected for their liveliness, believability and importance. The selections are by writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Joyce Carol Oates, James Alan McPherson, and Raymond Carver.

F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures the Jazz Age of the 1920s in these stories...

In this brilliantly inventive collection of stories, the author captures the disparate lives of the residents of Manhattan's West 89th Street from marriages, car accidents, love affairs, and adoptions.

F. Scott Fitzgerald makes anti-bellum Baltimore his setting for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse…

F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories brilliantly realize an era both exploding with opportunity and seething with decadence.

Two great stories from the Jazz Age: 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' and 'The Jelly Bean'.

First published in 1920, Flappers and Philosophers marked F. Scott Fitzgerald's entry into the realm of the short story...

Twenty-one unabridged stories by the greatest American authors...

Feel the texture of Fitzgerald's language as master reader Alexander Scourby, with cool precision, unfolds the mystery of Jay Gatsby...

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids.

One of the classics of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby is now available in a definitive, textually accurate edition.

Set in the America of the Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby depicts a society obsessed by wealth, status and background. Gatsby, famous for his prodigious wealth...

Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met during the war when he was penniless. Having made himself wealthy through illegal means, he now lives in a mansion across the bay from the home of Daisy Buchanan, who has since married for money.

Through such classic novels as The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald established himself as perhaps the most penetrating voice of the Jazz Age…

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled and snobbish young man from the Midwest, attends Princeton University and acquires a refined sense of the proper "social" values...

This Side of Paradise was first published in 1920 and was considered daring and intellectual in its day. Its enormous popularity helped to launch young Fitzgerald's career as a major writer.