Tales of the Jazz Age
1922 story collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 first appeared, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, the Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair.
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Cover artist | John Held, Jr. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Short stories |
Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Publication date | September 22, 1922 |
Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
ISBN | 1-4341-0001-4 |
Due to its adult theme, Fitzgerald did not consider “May Day” suitable for the family oriented readership favored by the Post He offered this “masterpiece” to H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, editors at The Smart Set, where it appeared in the July 1920 issue.[1] Fitzgerald termed the story “this somewhat unpleasant tale…”[2][3]