A collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby
A collection of short stories from the author of
The Great Gatsby
Tales of the Jazz Age features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to write The Great Gatsby, and to become one of the enduring icons of American literature.
This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Among the "Lost Generation" of writers that came of age during the Roaring Twenties, the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) epitomized "The Jazz Age": a period of declining traditional values, prohibition and speakeasies, and great artistic leaps. Fitzgerald's first novel,
This Side of Paradise, was a financial success, but subsequent ones, including his masterpiece,
The Great Gatsby, sold poorly. In need of money, he turned to writing commercial short stories and Hollywoodillegalscripts, while his lifelong alcoholism destroyed his health and led to an early death. The 1945 reissue of
The Great Gatsby spurred a wide resurgence of interest, and Fitzgerald is now considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.
Über den Autor
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inhaltsverzeichnis
My Last Flappers
-The Jelly-Bean
-The Camel's Back
-May Day
-Porcelain 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: The Quintessence of Quaintness in One Act
-Jemina, the Mountain Girl
Afterword
Biography
Further Reading
Klappentext
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Tales of the Jazz Age features some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to write The Great Gatsby, and to become one of the enduring icons of American literature.
With an afterword by Ned Halley.
Stories in this edition:
The Jelly-Bean
The Camel's Back
May Day
Porcelain and Pink
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tarquin of Cheapside
'O Russet Witch'
The Lees of Happiness
Mr Icky: The Quintessence of Quaintness in One Act
Jemina, the Mountain Girl
A collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby
