I'd Die for You: And Other Lost Stories

‘This book isn’t simply a collection of stories; it is also a guide to the writer at a point where the direction of his writing was changing.’ – The Times The dream palaces of The Great Gatsby lie far away in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories, a long-overdue and masterful collection of the unpublished short tales he crafted up until his all too early passing. All eighteen short fictions collected here were lost in one sense or another: physically lost, coming to light only recently; lost in the turbulence of Fitzgerald's later life; and lost to readers because his editors sometimes did not understand what he was trying to write. For an editorship still in the thrall of the ‘jazz age’ Fitzgerald, this new and progressive fiction largely failed to find its place. Now we have the advantage to see these stories for what they really were, extraordinary examples of their form from a mercurial writer with talent to burn. From the freewheeling humour of Women in the House to the brutal satire of the title tale, I'd Die for You: And Other Lost Stories is a showcase of a 20th century literary icon.