Paradise lost: a life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Introduction: Clio and Scott

Part I. Beginnings, 1896-1920: Prince and pauper

Celtic blood

Forever Princeton

Golden girl

Opposites alike

Part II. Building up, 1920-1925: Trouble in paradise

Corruptions : the early stories

The knock-off artist

Rich boy, poor boy

The wages of sin : The beautiful and damned

Exile in Great Neck

After the gold rush : The Great Gatsby

Part III. Breaking down, 1925-1940

Adrift abroad

Emotional bankruptcy

Penance

Far from home

Jazz Age Jeremiah

Book of fathers : Tender is the night

Purgatory

De profundis

Life in a company town

Sentimental education

Stahr fall

Ghosts and legends, 1940 and after

Zelda after Scott

Life after death.