This evocative collection of love letters chronicles one of the most legendary romances of all time. Much has been written about the fascinating marriage between Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs (and lows) and her institutional confinement, their devotion to each other lasted for more than twenty-two years. Their myth conjures up images of gleaming hotel lobbies, white suits, flappers, lavish parties and smoky speakeasies — a whole world of nostalgia for the Jazz age and the expatriate life in Europe.

The Fitzgeralds’ courtship and marriage was so tightly linked to their books that it has often been hard to distinguish between life and literature. Now, as a result of the meticulous work of Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, who have brought many previously unpublished letters together with those published separately in Scott and Zelda’s collected writings, the story of their love can be given in their own letters. Introduced by an extensive narrative of the Fitzgeralds,  they are beautifully illustrated throughout with a selection of both familiar and unpublished photographs.

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‘Heartbreaking ... love has seldom seemed more poignant’ —Sunday Times

‘A good source for uncovering the truth ... the correspondence speaks for itself and the editors allow readers to draw their own conclusions’ —Daily Telegraph

‘Superbly edited and evocatively illustrated’ —Sunday Telegraph

‘The letters are beautifully organised, with clear and illuminating biographical exposition in between. Readers are given the written evidence from which to make up their own minds about responsibility and blame’ —Literary Review

‘Scott and Zelda's letters make it clear that both of them knew they had wasted their youth, beauty and early success. And both of them understood that they were bound together’ —Independent on Sunday