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The Baby Party and Other Stories

'This is our way of doing things,' he thought. 'Generous and fresh

and free, but at a more nervous speed these days.'

Pretty Bernice finds out the hard way that there's more to

life than being 'nice'. John and Edith Andros learn more from

a polite baby party than they ever wished to. Beautiful young

Ellen Baker finds herself pulled towards the dark side, and

danger. And handsome but poor Michael Curly tries to w i n

Caroline Dandy back from a man w h o offers her safety.

T h e rich young Americans of the 1920s were different from

the people before them. They had new freedoms, new ways -

and new problems. F. Scott Fitzgerald made it his life's work

to write about them, and in these four stories he describes their

world: exciting, silly, cruel and sometimes sad - and not so

different from our own.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise,

made him famous at the age of twenty-four. Soon after, he

married a well-known beauty, Zelda Sayre, and together they

began a fast, brilliant lifestyle that became famous. His best

novel, The Great Gatsby, appeared in 1925, but by the 1930s

the couple's high living had begun to hurt them. Zelda was

suffering from mental illness and Scott from his drinking and

their often disastrous lives. Zelda went into hospital and Scott

tried to earn money by writing films. He died in Hollywood

of a heart attack in 1940, at the age of forty-four. His short

stories and novels are n o w some of the best-loved of all

American writing.

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The Baby Party

and Other Stories

Bernice Bobs her Hair

The Baby Party

A Short Trip Home

The Bridal Party

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Level 5

Retold by Stephen Waller

Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

The Baby Party and other stories - level 5 (Penguin Readers).pdf