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Published in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” is a concise but potent investigation of American ambition and romantic longing. The tale was subsequently collected in his 1926 anthology All the Sad Young Men. Widely anthologized, the story is frequently cited as one of Fitzgerald’s finest short works and is noted for thematic elements that prefigure those expanded in his later novel The Great Gatsby. It occupies a place within Fitzgerald’s “Gatsby‑cluster” and exemplifies the author’s early–century exploration of romance, contemporary life, and the pursuit of the American ideal.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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