飞女郎最早在公共场合吸烟，她们惯常在鸡尾酒和晚会间穿梭，她们一副时尚杂志的标准装束，面色苍白，嘴唇猩红，眼圈黝黑。

她们是让男人说“是”的老手，让他们甘心送出礼物……我的几本书之所以流行，就是因为记述了飞女郎的非常举止。———F•S•菲茨杰拉德

此书是作者**部短篇小说集，收入他已发表的八个短篇故事。作者以崭新的视角和鲜亮的文笔如实描绘一战后美国社会的生活景象，颂扬了年轻一代对旧道德的反叛心态和对美好未来的追求。

《离岸的海盗》是个虚构的浪漫故事，女主角阿蒂塔简直就是飞女郎的形象代言人。她彻底反对平庸的生活，情愿生活在美丽的谎言里。《冰宫》弥漫着浓浓的诗意，作者用精美绝伦的文笔写出了美国南方与北方的差异，傲慢与偏见对人心的影响，许多重大主题都凝缩在这篇美丽的短篇里。《脑袋与肩膀》是集子里最为幽默的一篇。《刻花玻璃酒缸》是个令人难忘的故事，构思巧妙，主人公的一生都受到一只酒缸的影响。《伯妮斯剪掉了头发》是集子里最为**的一篇，曾被改编为电视短片及舞台剧，这故事也折射出作者本人对飞女郎既欣赏又困惑的态度。《祝福礼》是集子里的一个另类，反映了作者对宗教思想及宗教仪式的敬畏与恐惧的复杂心态。《戴利林波的堕落》是篇笔调幽默的短篇，讽刺了当时冒险走捷径的时代风气。《四只拳头》是一则苦涩的幽默故事，反映了一个年轻人在成长过程中所遭受的四次刻骨铭心的打击。

Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while 'The Ice Palace' features a Southern belle whose marriage to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. Also containing 'The Offshore Pirate', 'Head and Shoulders', 'The Cut-Glass Bowl', 'Benediction', 'Dalyrimple Goes Wrong' and 'The Four Fists', this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgerald's development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.