Join us for this five-part series of pleasurable, selected short stories for adults. The stories can be located online or you may obtain a copy at the Reference Desk.
The selected story for May is, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald’s “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is a quirky imaginative fantasy story that also functions as social satire. It is the tale of a man who has discovered a giant mountain made of solid diamond a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Once he discovers it, he needs to keep it hidden from the world at all costs. The story is set in the woods of Montana and may be influenced by a trip Fitzgerald took to the area one summer with a buddy from Princeton University.
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