Tales of the Jazz Age: stories (1st Vintage classics ed.)

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.