The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” first appeared in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set, a popular magazine of the 1920s. Fitzgerald had attempted to sell it to the Saturday Evening Post, which had published many of his other stories, but its harsh anticapitalistic message was rejected by the conservative magazine. In September 1922, the story appeared in his second collection, Tales of the...

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