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Tales of the Jazz Age - The Original 1922 Edition
Tales of the Jazz Age - The Original 1922 Edition | Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Tales of the Jazz Age - The Original 1922 Edition” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is the second collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. It includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. The story "May Day" depicts a party at a popular club in New York that becomes a night of revelry during which former soldiers and an affluent group of young people start an anti-Bolshevik demonstration that results in an attack on a leftist newspaper office. "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is a fantastic satire of the selfishness endemic to the wealthy and their undying pursuit to preserve that way of life. All of these stories, like his best novels, meld Fitzgerald's fascination with wealth with an awareness of a larger world, creating a subtle social critique. 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, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
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Mjk20a
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"Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and "Benjamin Button" are rather original and different for Fitzgerald, the others are fairly typical tropes for Fitzgerald: love, unrequited love, and love in the age of social class inflexibility stories.

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I really want to read this. I love The Great Gatsby! It's always in the back of my mind. My interpretation of the characters and their motives are a little different than most people's. ~*~ Comment if you love Gatsby too! ~*~

Ukulelebob Great book curious as to what the differences are between it and the earlier version. 9y
LinaLovesLit @Ukulelebob Me too. I'm wondering if it reveals more about the character's motives. 9y
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