The Complete Pat Hobby Stories

Bibliographic Details

Book Title: The Complete Pat Hobby Stories

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN-13: 9789365611113

Pages: 900

Edition: First Edition (2026)

Binding: Paperback

Genre: Literature & Fiction > Classics > American Literature > Short Stories > Hollywood Satire

Recommended Age Group: 16+ years; suitable for senior secondary, undergraduate, postgraduate, and general classic literature readers

Reading Difficulty: Moderate

Estimated Reading Time to Finish: 28–34 hours

Price: $33.99/- £32.99/- ₹825/-

Description

The Complete Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald brings together the witty, sharp, and revealing stories centred on Pat Hobby, one of Fitzgerald’s most memorable late-career creations. Set against the world of Hollywood studios, screenwriting departments, producers, contracts, ambition, and professional insecurity, these stories offer a satirical portrait of a fading writer trying to survive in an industry that values youth, speed, cleverness, and marketable success. Through Pat Hobby’s schemes, disappointments, comic evasions, and uneasy encounters with power, Fitzgerald turns the glamour of Hollywood into a landscape of irony, vulnerability, and social observation.

Pat Hobby is not a heroic figure, yet he is deeply human. He is proud, desperate, opportunistic, nostalgic, and often absurd, but his failures expose the emotional cost of creative decline and commercial pressure. Fitzgerald’s prose combines humour with melancholy, allowing the stories to work both as entertainment and as commentary on authorship, reputation, aging, money, and the changing nature of literary labour. Readers familiar with Fitzgerald’s major novels will find here a different but equally valuable side of his imagination: concise, comic, unsentimental, and alert to the fragile dignity of people trying to remain useful.

This edition is ideal for students of American literature, modern fiction, short story studies, film culture, and twentieth-century literary history. Its substantial 900-page format makes it a strong reference volume for classrooms, libraries, collectors, and serious readers. The Complete Pat Hobby Stories is a distinctive addition to Fitzgerald studies and a rewarding collection for anyone interested in literary satire, Hollywood fiction, and the complicated relationship between art and commerce.

Key Features

• Complete Pat Hobby story collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• Explores Hollywood studios, writers, ambition, and decline.
• Features Fitzgerald’s sharp humour and social observation.
• Ideal for students of American and modern literature.
• Strong choice for short story and literary satire courses.
• Examines art, money, reputation, and creative insecurity.
• Useful for readers interested in film and studio culture.
• Substantial 900-page edition for collectors and libraries.
• Suitable for academic study and personal reading.
• First Edition 2026 from AUMRAM Publications.

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Year: 2026