Tales of the Jazz Age

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Fitzgerald Anne Margaret Daniel (Professor, Writer, Editor, Professor, Writer, Editor, New School University)

Tales of the Jazz Age

Fitzgerald, Anne Margaret Daniel (Professor, Writer, Editor, Professor, Writer, Editor, New School University)

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Worlds Classics
14 December 2023

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.' Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short fiction. Often overshadowed by his major novels, Fitzgerald's short stories demonstrate the same originality and inventive range, as he chronicles with wry and astute observation the temper of the hedonistic 1920s. In 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', two of his greatest stories, he conjures up the spirit of the age; in other stories he adopts a variety of forms - parody, a one-act play, fantasy - with unrivalled versatility. 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', a tale of a man living his life backwards, features among the 'Fantasies' in Fitzgerald's self-deprecatory Table of Contents, alongside the groupings 'My Last Flappers' and 'Unclassified Masterpieces'.

Fitzgerald chose the stories for his second collection when he was just twenty-five years old, and in the full flush of wild literary success. Tales of the Jazz Age is a quirky, electrifying selection reaching back into his college days, showing Fitzgerald's strengths not only as one of America's leading short story authors in the early 1920s, but as a playwright, farcical satirist, melodramatist, and fantastical novella-writer. He went in all these directions with equal ease and flash in 1922. Tales of the Jazz Age was a sensation then, and remains so now.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

By: Fitzgerald, Anne Margaret Daniel (Professor, Writer, Editor, Professor, Writer, Editor, New School University)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 214g
ISBN: 9780198856085
ISBN 10: 0198856083
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 14 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"A Table of Contents 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 Jemima, the Mountain Girl"

Anne Margaret Daniel teaches at the New School University in New York City. Her essays on literature, music, books, and culture have appeared for the past thirty years in books, critical editions, magazines, and journals including The New York Times, Hot Press, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement. Daniel's edition of Olivia Shakespear's forgotten fin-de-siecle novel Beauty's Hour: A Phantasy was published in 2015, and her bestselling edition of the last complete short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories, appeared in 2017.