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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Saturday Evening Post And Esquire
F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose fame rests largely upon his novels, especially The Great Gatsby (1925), also wrote dozens upon dozens of short stories that literally provided him with his livelihood, many of which made their initial appearances in The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire.
In total, one hundred eighty-one short stories by Fitzgerald, both published and unpublished, are listed below. Of these, one is shared in authorship with Zelda Fitzgerald (her other ten stories are noted also), and another was classified by Fitzgerald as a burlesque. A few others were classified as stories, although with a question mark, by Fitzgerald. Volumes of Fitzgerald's works in which these stories are collected are noted, with contents explained.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose fame rests largely upon his novels, especially The Great Gatsby (1925), also wrote dozens upon dozens of short stories that literally provided him with his livelihood, many of which made their initial appearances in The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire.
In total, one hundred eighty-one short stories by Fitzgerald, both published and unpublished, are listed below. Of these, one is shared in authorship with Zelda Fitzgerald (her other ten stories are noted also), and another was classified by Fitzgerald as a burlesque. A few others were classified as stories, although with a question mark, by Fitzgerald. Volumes of Fitzgerald's works in which these stories are collected are noted, with contents
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose fame rests largely upon his novels, especially The Great Gatsby (1925), also wrote dozens upon dozens of short stories that literally provided him with his livelihood, many of which made their initial appearances in The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire.

In total, one hundred eighty-one short stories by Fitzgerald, both published and unpublished, are listed below. Of these, one is shared in authorship with Zelda Fitzgerald (her other ten stories are noted also), and another was classified by Fitzgerald as a burlesque. A few others were classified as stories, although with a question mark, by Fitzgerald. Volumes of Fitzgerald's works in which these stories are collected are noted, with contents

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