{"product_id":"the-basil-and-josephine-stories-9780684826189","title":"The Basil and Josephine Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volume\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1928, while struggling with his novel \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e still unfinished, Fitzgerald wrote five more stories (also published in the \u003ci\u003ePost)\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Basil and Josephine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e brings together in one volume the complete set, resulting in one of Fitzgerald's most charming and evocative works\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFitzgerald, F. Scott:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e. He died at the age of forty-four while working on \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/i\u003e. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491889910034,"sku":"9780684826189","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bffd3cba-6f72-4cb7-9d55-b895be72d62d.jpg?v=1730560692","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-basil-and-josephine-stories-9780684826189","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}