Babylon Revisited (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1931
- Setting: Paris
- Principal Characters: Charlie Wales, Honoria Wales, Marion Peters, Lincoln Peters, Duncan Schaeffer, Lorraine Quarrles
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Future, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Fathers, Death or dying
- Locales: Paris, France
The Story
Charlie Wales has returned to Paris after a three-year absence in the hope of taking his nine-year-old daughter, Honoria, back to live with him in Prague. He remembers with regret that his former life in Paris was a life of dissipation and wildly extravagant spending. Paris then was awash with Americans who had achieved almost instant wealth on the stock market. The Paris to which Charlie returns, however, is a changed Paris, now almost empty of Americans because most of those who had lived so extravagantly had lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929....
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