Flappers and Philosophers was published in 1920 on the heels of FitzgeraldтАЩs sensational debut, This Side of Paradise, and anticipated themes in The Great Gatsby. This iconic collection marks the writerтАЩs entry into short fiction, and contains some of his most famous early stories, including тАЬBernice Bobs Her Hair,тАЭ тАЬThe Ice Palace,тАЭ тАЬHead and Shoulders,тАЭ and тАЬThe Offshore Pirate.тАЭ In these pages we meet FitzgeraldтАЩs trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost Generation. With their bobbed hair and dangling cigarettes, his characters are sophisticated, witty, and, above all, modern: the spoiled heiress who falls for her kidnapper, the intellectual student whose life is turned upside-down by a chorus girl, the feuding debutantes whose weapons are cutting words and a pair of scissors. An instant classic in its time, a confirmed part of the canon today, this collection evokes 1920s America through the eyes of a writer indelibly linked to that singular era.┬а┬а