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"All crowds have to howl."

First published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "May Day" relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year, during the "general hysteria" which inaugurated the Jazz... Read Full Overview

May Day is a classic short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This story can also be found in the Tales of the Jazz Age collection, ISBN 978-1-60355-099-4.

This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July 1920, relates a series of events that took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon F. Scott Fitzgerald. In life they were unrelated, except... Read Full Overview

This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July 1920, relates a series of events that took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon F. Scott Fitzgerald. In life they were unrelated, except... Read Full Overview

"May Day" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in Smart Set in 1920.

May Day (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish): This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression... Read Full Overview

May Day was sold directly to Smart Set before Fitzgerald had a literary agent (later Harold Ober). It is noted that Fitzgerald based some of the events on those he experienced in New York City. 1] The city is detailed as both a source of unfathomable creative inspiration and... Read Full Overview

"May Day" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in Smart Set in 1920.

This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon me. In life they were unrelated, except by the general... Read Full Overview

This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon me. In life they were unrelated, except by the general... Read Full Overview

"May Day" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in Smart Set in 1920.

May Day" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in Smart Set in 1920.The story uses the May Day Riots of 1919 as historical backdrop. During these events, as the lower-class is fighting for certain causes, a group of privileged Yale alumni meet for a dance.

Luther has gone missing for the last three days in Morocco. He had been kidnapped quite suddenly from the Hotel Ryad Mogador, Marrakech. It was quickly done, taking both men by surprise. The timing had made Juan wonder if someone had already found the body of Petrovic. A KGB... Read Full Overview

There is a change of scene to Sixth Avenue. Carrol Key and Gus Rose are demobilized soldiers, "ugly and ill-nourished". They have no direction and are overwhelmed with the freedom they have been given.

This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon me. In life they were unrelated, except by the general... Read Full Overview