The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Ice Palace

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Vanessa Hart

Unabridged: 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/07/2013

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

One of F. Scott Fitzgeralds earliest short stories, The Ice Palace is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young Southern woman who is bored with her conventional life. Shes engaged to Harry Bellamy, a young man from the North. Despite concern from her family and friends, Sally travels to Harrys hometown to meet his family. Hoping for an exciting adventure, she instead finds herself in a cold, unfamiliar place. There, in the dead of winter, she begins to question everything.Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anna on January 30, 2022

North = cold, ew, females 😡, SWEDES 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 South= Hot girl summer tings......more

Goodreads review by Tricia on January 27, 2014

For me, plot line is secondary with Fitzgerald because I just get lost in his words. His prose is beautiful. It's that simple.......more

Goodreads review by Hiba⁷ on June 15, 2017

The story was beautifully written, the theme isn't common as well, it's about this young lady who thought she could easily change her home, and get used to another one, but she found out she was wrong, with all the differences, between her the Southern young lady, and her fiancé the Northern young m......more

Goodreads review by Viji on October 28, 2013

Better than the previous read.. The story is about a girl who feels that she'll be stuck if she continues to live in the south and moves on to the north with a boy she thinks she is in love with.. Only when she reaches north does she realize the false pretense of the people there.. She feels that th......more

Goodreads review by Isadora on October 13, 2015

Fitzgerald is surprisingly good when his main character is a woman, it takes him farther away from his own head, I suppose. Though his prose is always perfect as far as I'm concerned, his tendency to write the same story over and over can get tiresome, and thankfully this was not the case here. The......more

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