Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of short stories is a classic, and one of the most influential works in 20th century American literature. Tales of the Jazz Age features an array of characters, from gangsters to flappers, who are all trying to make it through the glitzy decade known as the Jazz Age.
The book includes some of Fitzgerald’s best-known short stories: “May Day,” “The Ice Palace,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Tarquin of Cheapside” and “O Russet Witch!” The book is notable for its experimental style, flouting many conventions of classic American literature.
Despite being labeled by some as a "popular" writer and on occasion dismissed as one of those who merely chronicled the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's work deeply explores moral dilemmas and conflicts between morality and mores. In addition to this, some critics have called him "the first American master of styles of the post-World War I era."