Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Overview

From Simon & Schuster and one of the greatest writers of his generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald, comes a masterful collection of short stories that encapsulate the Jazz Age.

Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second book of 11 short stories, including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", a humorous satire of the wealthy, is a perfect length for a long commute - and for a return to a golden, bygone era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684717623
Publisher:	Scribner
Publication date:	01/01/1966
Series:	Six Tales of Jazz Age SL 157 , #1
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University