The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
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Tags: Classics, Short Stories
ISBN:1600964044
About the Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born into a privileged family in St. Paul, Minnesota. Early on, the young Fitzgerald tried his hand at writing and saw his work appear in the school paper. Although not a stellar student, the young man attended Princeton University. While at college Fitzgerald began writing parts of what would become one of his most important works, This Side of Paradise. In 1917 the United States became involved in the First World War and Fitzgerald decided to join up and serve his country. He found himself at boot camp in Alabama, where he met the woman—Zelda Sayre—who would become his wife and closest companion in the wild and exciting decade to come. After the war's end, Fitzgerald went to work for a New York advertising agency and finally published his first novel. He and Sayre were married and throughout the 1920s they were one of the Jazz Age's most trend-setting couples, living a life of excess and fun in the spotlight. Fitzgerald and Sayre spent considerable time in Europe, where they moved in some of the most notable circles of the "Lost Generation," a community of artistic expatriates who lived and worked in the exciting world abroad. The decadent lifestyle that Zelda and Fitzgerald led would eventually bring a shadow of instability and destruction in its wake. Although he died at an early age, Fitzgerald's novels, such as The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned record a definitive moment in American culture, when new freedoms allowed a fleeting plunge into a world of inspiration and glamour.
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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades--a small town on the Mississippi River--for several generations. John's father had held the amateur golf championship through many a heated contest; Mrs. Unger was known "from hot-box to hot-bed," as the local phrase went, for her ...
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5/5
Reviewed by w9eh on Apr 22, 2009
Pure fantasy
Really vivid fantasy...unless... Perhaps I'll take a trip out West, into the mountains.
5/5
Reviewed by dreamdust on May 23, 2010
Diamond
Sparkling fun!
2/5 
Reviewed by kbgapgirl on Mar 17, 2009
interesting at the beginning...
wow! i'm surprised to be the first to rate this short story! it is interesting and fun at the beginning, but i felt like it got a bit boring as it went on. perhaps i didn't look well enough for symbolism and imagery to fully appreciate it! i love fitzgerald's writings in general, but this one is my least favorite. perhaps i will like it one day, though! tastes change!
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Ratings for 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
| cresswga | | 2009-03-09 | |
| dreamdust | | Read review | 2010-05-23 |
| juli |  | 2008-10-13 | |
| kbgapgirl | | Read review | 2009-03-17 |
| Marjaana |  | 2009-03-18 | |
| ramonpique | | 2008-12-27 | |
| w9eh | | Read review | 2009-04-22 |
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