The Basil and Josephine Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0684826186
- ISBN-13
- 9780684826189
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 334
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-01-24
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Authors
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer, John Richard Kuehl
Description
In this classic collection of 14 short stories, Fitzgerald evokes, with a mixture of nostalgia and ironic humor, his experiences growing up in the decade before World War II. The tales were originally written as two separate series for The Saturday Evening Post.
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