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The Basil and Josephine Stories
The Basil and Josephine Stories
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In 1928, while struggling with his novel
Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Drawing on his childhood and adolescent experiences, Fitzgerald wrote nine tales that were published in the
about his life from the time he was an eleven-year-old boy living in Buffalo, New York, until he entered Princeton University in 1913. Then from 1930 to 1931, with
still unfinished, Fitzgerald wrote five more stories (also published in the
that centered around Josephine Perry, Basil's female counterpart. Although Fitzgerald intended to combine the fourteen Basil Lee and Josephine Perry stories into a single work, he never succeeded in doing so in his lifetime. Here,
brings together in one volume the complete set, resulting in one of Fitzgerald's most charming and evocative works.