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Tales of the Jazz Age
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9789355271464
Publisher: Mjp Publ
Published: Feb 13 2023
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, the Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair.
The Jelly-Bean
The Jelly-Bean is a story set in the southern United States, in the city of Tarleton, Georgia. Fitzgerald wrote that he had a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever I write a story about it I receive letters from all over the South denouncing me in no uncertain terms. Written shortly after his first novel was published, the author also collaborated with his wife on certain scenes.
The story momentarily follows the life of a jelly-bean, or idler, named Jim Powell. An invitation to a dance with the old crowd revives his dreams of social advancement and love, until the consequences of drink and power of money come through and ruin them.
The Camel's Back
In the short introduction to this short story, Fitzgerald wrote, I suppose that of all the stories I have ever written this one cost me the least travail and perhaps gave me the most amusement. The story, he confessed, was written with the express purpose of buying a platinum and diamond wrist watch which cost six hundred dollars, and took seven hours to finish. Though it was the least-liked story by Fitzgerald in the volume, it was included in the O. Henry Memorial Collection (of the O. Henry Award) of 1920.
Fitzgerald claimed the story was based on actual incident that occurred in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1919. Three friends called up during the evening to tell me I had missed some rare doings, Fitzgerald later recalled, a well-known man-about-town had disguised himself as a camel and, with a taxi-driver as the rear half, managed to attend the wrong party. Aghast with myself for not being there, I spent the next day trying to collect the fragments of the story.
May Day
Published as a novelette in The Smart Set in July, 1920, May Day relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year, during the general hysteria which inaugurated the Jazz Age.
Porcelain and Pink
A play, published in The Smart Set in January, 1920.
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