THE JAZZ AGE COLLECTION - The Great Gatsby & Other Tales

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s.

Excerpt:

"It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.

We were the most powerful nation. Who could tell us any longer what was fashionable and what was fun? Isolated during the European War, we had begun combing the unknown South and West for folkways and pastimes, and there were more ready to hand…"

Table of Contents:

Echoes of the Jazz Age

Tales from the Jazz Age:

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

Jemina, the Mountain Girl

The Beautiful and Damned

The Great Gatsby

Babylon Revisited

Winter Dreams