F. Scott Fitzgerald 
Flappers and Philosophers 

‘Flappers and Philosophers’ is a collection of eight stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Originally published in 1920 it was the first short story collection by Fitzgerald and contains the following stories: The Offshore Pirate, The Ice Palace, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong, and The Four Fists. The stories of ‘Flappers and Philosophers’ are set in the era for which the author is best known, the Jazz Age, a term Fitzgerald himself coined.