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May Day, Fitzgerald's first great novelette, mingles autobiographical details with events from contemporary history. In May 1919, after an interfraternity dance at Delmonico's, Fitzgerald was bounced out of the Fifty-ninth-Street Childs for a disturbance similar to the one created by Peter Himmel in the story. At the same time, the assault on the New York Trumpet by a mob of drunken soldiers parallels a raid on the socialist New York Call during the red scare of 1919. Like many of Fitzgerald's stories from Tales of the Jazz Age, May Day includes a "touch of disaster"--in this case the violent despair of down-and-out Yale man Gordon Sterrett--which is contrasted with the oblivious pursuit of pleasure by Gordon's double, his wealthy, man-about-town classmate, Philip Dean. May Day is a masterpiece from one of America's greatest writers. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: May Day
• Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72
• EAN: 9781600962271
• ISBN: 9781600962271
• ID: 08767167
• Publisher: Waking Lion Press
• Weight: 128 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 151 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. July 2008

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