Tales of the Jazz Age

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) contains some of Fitzgerald's best short stories, including 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', as well as 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', a tale of a man living his life backwards. In them Fitzgerald wryly chronicles the temper of the hedonistic 1920s, and displays his inventive versatility.

List of contents

• A Table of Contents


• The Jelly-Bean


• The Camel's Back


• May Day


• Porcelain and Pink


• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz


• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


• Tarquin of Cheapside


• "O Russet Witch!"


• The Lees of Happiness


• Mr. Icky


• Jemima, the Mountain Girl

About the author

Anne Margaret Daniel teaches at the New School University in New York City. Her essays on literature, music, books, and culture have appeared for the past thirty years in books, critical editions, magazines, and journals including The New York Times, Hot Press, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement. Daniel's edition of Olivia Shakespear's forgotten fin-de-siècle novel Beauty's Hour: A Phantasy was
published in 2015, and her bestselling edition of the last complete short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories, appeared in 2017.

Summary

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) contains some of Fitzgerald's best short stories, including 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', as well as 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', a tale of a man living his life backwards. In them Fitzgerald wryly chronicles the temper of the hedonistic 1920s, and displays his inventive versatility.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Margaret Daniel, Editor, Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Daniel Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: Anne Margaret Daniel (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2023
• EAN: 9780198856085
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885608-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary