The Basil and Josephine Stories

The Basil and Josephine Stories

<B><I>Fourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volume</I></B> <BR> In 1928, while struggling with his novel <I>Tender Is the Night,</I> Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Drawing on his childhood and adolescent experiences, Fitzgerald wrote nine tales that were published in the <I>Saturday Evening Post</I> about his life from the time he was an eleven-year-old boy living in Buffalo, New York, until he entered Princeton University in 1913. Then from 1930 to 1931, with <I>Tender Is the Night</I> still unfinished, Fitzgerald wrote five more stories (also published in the <I>Post)</I> that centered around Josephine Perry, Basil's female counterpart. Although Fitzgerald intended to combine the fourteen Basil Lee and Josephine Perry stories into a single work, he never succeeded in doing so in his lifetime. Here, <I>The Basil and Josephine Stories</I> brings together in one volume the complete set, resulting in one of Fitzgerald's most charming and evocative works.