The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great waelth. Readers will be transported to a fablous fantasy land of such opulence that the very existence of this domain has to remain a jealously guarded secret.

Fatal consequences lie in store for `bona fide` guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style whivh is quintessetially F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Also fiatured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited.