In this episode we’ll be reading the short story, “The Lees of Happiness,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story was originally published in The Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1920 – the same year as Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. The author stated that he feared the story “would be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but,” as he saw it, “it was a great deal more.”
2. The Lees of Happiness
In this episode we’ll be reading the short story, “The Lees of Happiness,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story was originally published in The Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1920 – the same year as Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. The author stated that he feared the story “would be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but,” as he saw it, “it was a great deal more.”
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