EBOOK Tales of the Jazz Age

'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 theage; 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 'MyLast        Flappers' and 'Unclassified Masterpieces'.In these eleven stories, Fitzgerald        establishes the style that was to make him one of the greatest American writers of        the twentieth-century.