All the Sad Young Men

<i>All the Sad Young Men </i> is the third collection of short stories written by F.

Scott Fitzgerald.<br/>Fitzgerald was disillusioned and having money problems when wrote the stories.

He believed his wife Zelda was seeing another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play <i>The Vegetable </i> had been a failure.

Expecting more failure Fitzgerald was surprised by its critical acclaim.

The New York Times said of it, ';The publication of this volume of short stories might easily have been an anti-climax after the perfection and success of <i>The Great Gatsby </i> of last Spring.

A novel so widely praised by people whose recognition counts is stiff competition.

It is even something of a problem for a reviewer to find new and different words to properly grace the occasion.

It must be said that the collection as a whole is not sustained to the high excellence of <i>The Great Gatsby </i> , but it has stories of fine insight and finished craft.'