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Fitzgerald’s second collection of fleeting tales, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes at least two masterpieces–”May Day” and “The Diamond as Huge as the Ritz”. This edition reproduces Tales of the Jazz Age in full, along with several uncollected tales from the early 1920s, including “Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar”, which closely anticipates the themes and characters of The Fantastic Gatsby. James L.W. West III traces the textual history of the tales, and provides detailed past notes and references.
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Although the tales are perfect, they are filled with errors. It is distracting when sentences don`t make sense and it takes away from the experience. It is understandable why it was so affordable.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This is a well-bound, well illustrated hardcover reprint of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second collection of fleeting tales, including “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “May Day,” and “The Diamond as Huge as the Ritz.”
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This 1922 fleeting tale collection is a trip back in time through the eyes of this celebrated leader. There are 11 tales here, of varying quality and I loved reading them all and letting myself visit the time and a place and the culture that is now just a tiny blip in the annals of history. Some tales are set in the world of the well-heeled, others are set in the world of fantasy and there are additional that are just figments of the leader’s imagination. I didn’t like all of these tales. As the adage goes, “when they were excellent they were very very excellent, and when they were terrible they were horrid”, but I felt I got to know F. Scott Fitzgerald through these tales, see how his mind worked, and know how he became so well known and was able to come to his full power in his novels.
His strongest stores were set in the real world, the young southern man who was smitten by a rich young woman, two recently unrestricted soldiers from the War in Europe who stumble upon some party-going socialites, a very amusing tale about a costume party where two men dress in a camel costume, and a sad tale about a pleased marriage which is spoiled by the spouse’s illness.
I don’t like fantasy and establish myself annoyed by these tales, even the one about the Curious Case of Benjamin Button which was recently made into a movie, or The Diamond as Huge as the Ritz which was a fantasy of enormous wealth and cruelty. There were tales of unfulfilled dreams and real emotion which I liked. And others that were just stupid and silly and hard to follow.
Yes, I loved this book, even the tales I didn’t like. Having a critical attitude towards something I am reading is not a terrible thing. But, I was really annoyed at the plethora of typographical errors throughout the book. There is no excuse for that.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
F Scott Fitzgerald public domain on my Kindle–doesn’t get better than that. Thanks Amazon!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This paperback Pine Street Press edition of “Tales of the Jazz Age” (the press is an imprint of the University of Pennsylvania Press) is afforable and well-edited. This edition, printed in 2003, contains the same content of eleven fleeting tales as the original Charles Scribner’s Sons edition published in 1922.
I was most interested in reading “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” because of the winter 2008 relief of the Brad Pitt film. This tale is not contained in the additional two Fitzgerald fleeting tale anthologies which I own. The tale is a fascinating small foray into straight-forwards fantasy, as a man is “born” fully cognizant (and language the King’s English), fully-grown (Fitzgerald never clarifies how Ben’s poor mother survived, let alone managed, the birthing suffering), and obviously very ancient. Benjamin then proceeds, Merlin-like, to live his life backwards, growing younger and younger. The tale is only 32 pages long, and ends rather sadly and abruptly. But, it is so un-Fitzgerald-like that I establish it intriguing, and am now nervously awaiting the movie to see what Hollywood does with it.
Fitzgerald, although an artist and genius of the highest calibar, also had to eat. These tales were written for money, and they are not as well-wrought as the best of his prose stylings in his novels. (Fitzgerald states candidly in his intros to the tales that several of them are re-worked tales which he had first done at Princeton while an undergraduate.) But this is Fitzgerald, after all, and a very young Fitzgerald, at that. So I establish this collection highly appealing and devoured it in one sitting.
I will now save my money and buy the expensive hardback version of this collection for my own library.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5