Flappers and Philosophers

First published in 1920, Flappers and Philosophers is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first collection of short stories, a sparkling portrait of youth, romance, and rebellion at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Across eight stories, Fitzgerald introduces a world of fashionable young women, ambitious men, country-club dances, and restless hearts caught between the expectations of an older society and the freedoms of a new century. In Bernice Bobs Her Hair, a shy young woman discovers the cruelties of social popularity, while The Ice Palace follows a Southern belle confronting the unfamiliar customs and cold landscapes of the North. Elsewhere, romantic adventures,