All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published by Scribner's in February 1926.
Composition
Fitzgerald wrote the stories at a time of disillusionment. He was in financial difficulty, he believed his wife Zelda was romantically involved with another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play The Vegetable had been a failure.
Contents
The volume contains nine stories:
"The Rich Boy"
"Winter Dreams"
"The Baby Party"
"Absolution (short story)"
"Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les"
"The Adjuster (short story)
"Hot and Cold Blood"
"The Sensible Thing""
"Gretchen's Forty Winks"
As with his other collections, its release was timed to follow the completion of his most recent novel, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald wrote "Absolution", one of the best-received stories in the collection, as a false start to Gatsby.
