Tales of the Jazz Age / F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, author.

Series:

Pine Street Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural Studies.

Fiction.

Literature.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Cultural Studies.

Fiction.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

First Pine Street Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. This new edition reproduces in full the original collection, stories that represent a clear movement in theme and character development toward what would become The Great Gatsby. In introducing each story, Fitzgerald offers accounts of its textual history, revealing decisions about which stories to include.

Contents:

Frontmatter

A TABLE OF CONTENTS

MY LAST FLAPPERS

THE JELLY-BEAN

THE CAMEL'S BACK

MAY DAY

PORCELAI 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

JEMINA, THE MOUNTAIN GIRL

Notes:

Originally published 1922 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-8122-0964-8

OCLC:

899261749