The Pat Hobby Stories

Author : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684804425
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pat Hobby Stories written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1962 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen episodes in the life of a Hollywood scenario hack in the late 1930's. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich, publisher of "Esquire", in which the stories appeared from January 1940 to May 1941.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387088769
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pat Hobby Stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office." Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish (excerpt) It was Christmas Eve in the studio. By eleven o'clock in the morning, Santa Claus had called on most of the huge population according to each one's deserts. Sumptuous gifts from producers to stars, and from agents to producers arrived at offices and studio bungalows: on every stage one heard of the roguish gifts of casts to directors or directors to casts; champagne had gone out from publicity office to the press. And tips of fifties, tens and fives from producers, directors and writers fell like manna upon the white collar class. In this sort of transaction there were exceptions. Pat Hobby, for example, who knew the game from twenty years' experience, had had the idea of getting rid of his secretary the day before. They were sending over a new one any minute—but she would scarcely expect a present the first day. Waiting for her, he walked the corridor, glancing into open offices for signs of life. He stopped to chat with Joe Hopper from the scenario department. 'Not like the old days,' he mourned, 'Then there was a bottle on every desk.' 'There're a few around.' 'Not many.' Pat sighed. 'And afterwards we'd run a picture—made up out of cutting-room scraps.' 'I've heard. All the suppressed stuff,' said Hopper. Pat nodded, his eyes glistening. 'Oh, it was juicy. You darned near ripped your guts laughing—' He broke off as the sight of a woman, pad in hand, entering his office down the hall recalled him to the sorry present. 'Gooddorf has me working over the holiday,' he complained bitterly. 'I wouldn't do it.' 'I wouldn't either except my four weeks are up next Friday, and if I bucked him he wouldn't extend me.' As he turned away Hopper knew that Pat was not being extended anyhow. He had been hired to script an old-fashioned horse-opera and the boys who were 'writing behind him'—that is working over his stuff—said that all of it was old and some didn't make sense. 'I'm Miss Kagle,' said Pat's new secretary... Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also authored 4 collections of short stories, as well as 164 short stories in magazines during his lifetime.

Author : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 819 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pat Hobby Stories (派特霍比故事集) written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pat Hobby Stories written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pat Hobby Stories (Annotated) written by F Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published by Arnold Gingrich of Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, and later collected in one volume in 1962.

Author : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
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Download or read book The Pat Hobby Stories (Annotated) written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published by Arnold Gingrich of Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, and later collected in one volume in 1962.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684826186
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basil and Josephine Stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-01-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic collection of 14 short stories, Fitzgerald evokes, with a mixture of nostalgia and ironic humor, his experiences growing up in the decade before World War II. The tales were originally written as two separate series for The Saturday Evening Post.

Author : Francis Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pat Hobby Stories (Annotated) written by Francis Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published by Arnold Gingrich of Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, and later collected in one volume in 1962.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 373681643X
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Pat Hobby Stories (Illustrated) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published by Arnold Gingrich of Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, and later collected in one volume in 1962. The last installments in Esquire of The Pat Hobby Stories were published posthumously; Fitzgerald had died in 1940. Pat Hobby is a down-and-out screenwriter in Hollywood, once successful as "a good man for structure" during the silent age of cinema, but now reduced to an alcoholic hack hanging around the studio lot. Most stories find him broke and engaged in some ploy for money or a much-desired screen credit, but his antics usually backfire and end in further humiliation. Drawing on his own experiences as a writer in Hollywood, Fitzgerald portrays Pat Hobby with self-mocking humor and nostalgia.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517452537
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pat Hobby Stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office." Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]