Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories contains some of his best-known tales of the glittering era he gave a name to. Published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age featured not only the flappers and lost young men Fitzgerald had made his name with, but a greater variety of...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories contains some of his best-known tales of the glittering era he gave a name to. Published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age featured not only the flappers and lost young men Fitzgerald had made his name with, but a greater variety of characters and scenes. The critically admired novella "May Day" contrasts its drunken debutantes with a mob of war veterans battling socialists in the streets. Here, too, are several imaginative stories that Fitzgerald described as "fantasies," including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," about a man who ages in reverse, and "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz," a surreal fable about the excesses of greed. Tales of the Jazz Age not only furthered Fitzgerald's reputation as a master storyteller but cemented his place as the spokesman of an age.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780307476371 (0307476375)
Publish date: 10 sierpnia 2010
Publisher: Random House, Vintage Classics
Pages no: 301
Edition language: English
This is a collection of periodical fiction from fairly early in Fitzgerald's career, including some writing dating from his university days. Several of the shorter items are so negligible or obscure that I'm sure they were only included because they existed. However, a few of the stories do stick ...