Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel-s themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac -The Rich Boy- and -Winter Dreams-, deal with wealthy protagonists - the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green - as they come to terms with lost love, while -Absolution-, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby. Also containing -The Baby Party-, -Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les-, -The Adjuster-, -Hot and Cold Blood-, -The Sensible Thing- and -Gretchen-s Forty Winks- - all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited - All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction.
