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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.

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Benediction (Fitzgerald)

Flappers and Philosophers public domain audiobook at LibriVox

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender Is the Night (1934)
The Last Tycoon (1941, unfinished)

Short story
collections

Flappers and Philosophers (1920)	"The Offshore Pirate" "The Ice Palace" "Head and Shoulders" "The Cut-Glass Bowl" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" "Benediction"
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)	"May Day" The Diamond as Big as the Ritz "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
All the Sad Young Men (1926)	"The Rich Boy" "Winter Dreams" "The Baby Party" "Absolution" "The Adjuster"
Taps at Reveille (1935)	"The Freshest Boy" "First Blood" "Crazy Sunday" "Babylon Revisited"
Posthumous works	Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (1960) The Basil and Josephine Stories (1962) The Pat Hobby Stories (1973) The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1989)

Plays

The Vegetable (1923)

Screenplays

Three Comrades (1938)
A Yank at Oxford (1938)

Essay collections

The Crack-Up (1945)

Portrayals

Beloved Infidel (1959 film)
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974 film)
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975 film)
Zelda (1993 film)
Last Call (2002 film)
The Pursuit of Persephone (2005 musical)
Waiting for the Moon (2005 musical)
Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015 series)
Genius (2016 film)

People

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F. Scott Fitzgerald House

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