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Tales of the Jazz Age: Stories of the Jazz Age and the American Dream
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781627556514
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Mar 29 2014
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A defining collection of short fiction capturing the mood, excess, and disillusionment of America's Jazz Age. First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age brings together eleven stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald that chart the shifting social landscape of the early twentieth century, from youthful aspiration and romantic illusion to satire, fantasy, and quiet despair. Written during the same period that established Fitzgerald as a leading voice of his generation, these stories reflect both the glittering surface and the underlying instability of postwar American life.
The collection includes a wide range of tones and forms, from the whimsical and experimental to the sharply observational. Stories such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button explore time, identity, and transformation, while others examine class ambition, moral compromise, and the fragile pursuit of happiness. Fitzgerald's prose-precise, lyrical, and attentive to social nuance-captures a world defined by rapid change and uncertain values.
As a unified volume, Tales of the Jazz Age offers both a portrait of a cultural moment and a demonstration of Fitzgerald's range as a short story writer. It remains essential reading for those interested in American modernism, early twentieth-century fiction, and the literary articulation of the Jazz Age.
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