The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by Robin Eller

This short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is included in the collection entitled Tales of the Jazz Age. It follows a sixteen-year-old boy from an affluent family in Mississippi on his way to the most exclusive preparatory school in the world. It is at this school that the boy, named John, meets Peter, a boy whose father is the richest man in the world. John is invited to stay in their home in the west on a break. As John learns more and more about the wealthy family, he discovers their dark, haunting secrets and finds himself running for his life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666545562

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American ‘Jazz Age’ of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.