Other editions of book Tales of the Jazz Age

A collection of 11 short stories, split into three sections: 'My Last Flappers' (The Jelly-Bean; The Camel's Back; May Day; Porcelain And Pink); 'Fantasies' (The Diamond As Big As The Ritz; The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Tarquin Of Cheapside; "O Russet Witch!"); 'Unclassified Masterpieces' (The Lees Of Happiness; Mr. Icky, The Quintessence Of Quaintness In One Act; and, Jemina, The Mountain Girl).

A collection of 11 short stories, split into three sections: 'My Last Flappers' (The Jelly-Bean; The Camel's Back; May Day; Porcelain And Pink); 'Fantasies' (The Diamond As Big As The Ritz; The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Tarquin Of Cheapside; "O Russet Witch!"); 'Unclassified Masterpieces' (The Lees Of Happiness; Mr. Icky, The Quintessence Of Quaintness In One Act; and, Jemina, The Mountain Girl).

A collection of 11 short stories, split into three sections: 'My Last Flappers' (The Jelly-Bean; The Camel's Back; May Day; Porcelain And Pink); 'Fantasies' (The Diamond As Big As The Ritz; The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Tarquin Of Cheapside; "O Russet Witch!"); 'Unclassified Masterpieces' (The Lees Of Happiness; Mr. Icky, The Quintessence Of Quaintness In One Act; and, Jemina, The Mountain Girl).

A collection of 11 short stories, split into three sections: 'My Last Flappers' (The Jelly-Bean; The Camel's Back; May Day; Porcelain And Pink); 'Fantasies' (The Diamond As Big As The Ritz; The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Tarquin Of Cheapside; "O Russet Witch!"); 'Unclassified Masterpieces' (The Lees Of Happiness; Mr. Icky, The Quintessence Of Quaintness In One Act; and, Jemina, The Mountain Girl).

Tales of the Jazz Age is a delightful, sobering, thought-provoking, and downright curious collection of 11 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories, published after his first two novels - This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922) - but before The Great Gatsby (1925). In Tales of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald takes on the mystery and confusion of love: from Southern temptations ("The Jellybean") to humorous ("The Camel’s Back") to poignant ("The Lees of Happiness") to heartbreakingly cruel ("O Russet Witch") to gay-but-tempered in post-World War I New York, with its dark undertones of alcoholism, communism, a liberal press, and the treatment of returning veterans (May Day). Fitzgerald moves away from the real world and takes the listener into the fantasy of a gemstone that is, literally, the size of a mountain ("The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"), with echoes of H. G. Wells and rough government authority flying into the story. But, staying with fantasies, Fitzgerald also treats the listener to two plays (Porcelain and Pink and Mr. Icky) that will bring smiles and a few good laughs to the listener’s ears. It is hard to categorize "The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button" except to say that the listener of this audiobook who has seen or heard about the recent movie of the same name should not - must not - expect anything like that. About all you need to know about Benjamin Button is that his birth and life were anything but normal. In "Tarquin of Cheapside", Fitzgerald tries out his inner Shakespeare, with an Elizabethan setting and characters that take the listener down dark London streets and into a rather unexpected but satisfying conclusion. And if London of the 16th century is not enough color for the listener of this audiobook, then "Jemina, the Mountain Girl" will transport you deep into the Kentucky hills, where family feuds over moonshine and card games bring two lovers together in one hot romance.

Evoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer’s most famous and celebrated stories. In “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an extraordinary child is born an old man, growing younger as the world ages around him. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” a fable of excess and greed, shows two boarding school classmates mired in deception as they make their fortune in gemstones. And in the classic novella “May Day,” debutantes dance the night away as war veterans and socialists clash in the streets of New York. Opening the book is a playful and irreverent set of notes from the author, documenting the real-life pressures and experiences that shaped these stories, from his years at Princeton to his cravings for luxury to the May Day Riots of 1919. Taken as a whole, this collection brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. Its 1922 publication furthered Fitzgerald's reputation as a master storyteller, and its legacy staked his place as the spokesman of an age.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Tales of the Jazz Age features some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to write The Great Gatsby, and to become one of the enduring icons of American literature.With an afterword by Ned Halley.Stories in this edition:The Jelly-BeanThe Camel's BackMay DayPorcelain and PinkThe Diamond as Big as the RitzThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonTarquin of Cheapside'O Russet Witch'The Lees of HappinessMr Icky: The Quintessence of Quaintness in One ActJemina, the Mountain Girl

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this 'Lost Generation' been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this collection captures, with Fitzgerald's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.

"Tales of the Jazz Age" is a collection of stories and dramas that exemplifies a classic period in American history. At the beginning of the roaring twenties it was a period in which Jazz, a truly American art form, would become the most popular form of music in America. It was a time in America that Fitzgerald's writing is most identified with. Contained within this volume are the following stories: The Jelly-Bean, The Camel's Back, May Day, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tarquin of Cheapside, "O Russet Witch!", The Lees of Happiness, Jemina, and the two short dramas, Porcelain and Pink, and Mr. Icky.

A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's prized short stories. The stories include: My Last Flappers, The Jelly-Bean, The Camel's Back, May Day, Porcelain and Pink, Fantasies, The Diamond as Big as The Ritz, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tarquin of Cheapside, "O Russet Witch!", Unclassified Masterpieces, The Lees of Happiness, Mr. Icky, and Jemina, The Mountain Girl.