Benediction (story)
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"Benediction" is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920 in Fitzgerald's short story collection Flappers and Philosophers. It tells the story of a young girl, Lois, who is on her way to a tryst with her lover, Howard, and stops to meet her much older brother, Kieth [sic], who is in a seminary and about to become a priest.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Books |
Novels: This Side of Paradise | The Beautiful and Damned | The Great Gatsby | Tender Is the Night | The Love of the Last Tycoon |
Short story books: Flappers and Philosophers | Tales of the Jazz Age | All the Sad Young Men | Taps at Reveille | The Pat Hobby Stories | The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Other works: "The Princeton Tiger" | The Vegetable | The Crack-Up | "Winter Dreams" | "Babylon Revisited" | "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" | "The Cut-Glass Bowl" | "Benediction" | "Head and Shoulders" |