The Cut-Glass Bowl

The Cut-Glass Bowl

"The Cut-Glass Bowl" is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920 in Fitzgerald's short story collection "Flappers and Philosophers". It tracks the lives of a married couple in New York, Evylyn and Harold Piper, through various difficult or tragic events that involve a cut glass bowl they received as a wedding gift.


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