Tales of the jazz age
Subtitle: stories
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald ; afterword by Ned Halley
Edition: [New ed.].
Publisher: Collectors Library
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781907360565
Subjects: Social life and customs; Short stories; Fiction
Description: Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed novella "May Day" contrasts drunken debutantes with a mob of war veterans battling socialists in the streets, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", filmed with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, is a fantasy about a man who ages in reverse, and "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is a surreal fable of excess.
Notes: Originally published: 1922.
Table of contents: title: The; title: jelly-Bean -- -- The; title: camel's back --; title: May Day --; title: Porcelain and pink -- -- The; title: diamond as big as the Ritz -- -- The; title: curious case of Benjamin Button --; title: Tarquin of cheapside --; title: 'O russet witch' -- -- The; title: lees of happiness --; title: Mr Icky: the quintessence of quaintness in one act --; title: Jemina, the mountain girl.