Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald Author

This unique edition of Tales of the Jazz Age from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzger... Read more

This unique edition of Tales of the Jazz Age from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Several of the stories had also been published earlier, independently, in either The Metropolitan[disambiguation needed], Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Tribune, or Vanity Fair.Though most widely known for the novella The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. Over the course of his career, Fitzgerald published more than 160 stories in the period's most popular magazines. His second short fiction collection, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. One, May Day, depicts a party at a popular club in New York that becomes a night of revelry during which former soldiers and an affluent group of young people start an anti-Bolshevik demonstration that results in an attack on a leftist newspaper office. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a fantastic satire of the selfishness endemic to the wealthy and their undying pursuit to preserve that way of life.All of these stories, like his best novels, meld Fitzgerald's fascination with wealth with an awareness of a larger world, creating a subtle social critique. With his discerning eye, Fitzgerald elucidates the interactions of the young people of post-World War I America who, cut off from traditions, sought their place in the modern world amid the general hysteria of the period that inaugurated the age of jazz. Less