F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories by American Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three thematic parts, the anthology highlights Fitzgerald's signature fascination with wealth, tradition, and the frenetic youth culture that emerged in the post-war jazz age. In "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Fitzgerald satirizes the selfishness of the rich. "May Day" depicts a party at a popular club that turns into a political demonstration....

A young southern woman is bored with her unchanging environment, and-much to her friends' chagrin-gets engaged to a northern man. After disregarding their concerns, she travels north during the winter to visit her fiancé's home town and meet his family, and comes to a major realization.

A wealthy girl visits her cousin for a month, and lets her turn her into a society girl.

A society girl is enchanted to meet a very rich and eligible young man. No sooner do they meet than her father dies unexpectedly, leaving her impoverished. Too ashamed to admit her situation, she instead invents a fanciful world to convince the bachelor that she is still the popular girl he first met.

Stories about the cup and the lip and the bad penny and the new broom rarely have anything, to do with cups or lips or pennies or brooms. This story Is the exception. It has to do with a material, visible and large–as–life camel's back.

A "Jelly-bean" is "one who spends his life conjugating the verb 'to idle.'" Born into middle-class society, a man becomes a grocery delivery boy after his father's untimely death, and soon descends into the seamier side of life: gambling and listening to spicy tales of all the shootings that had occurred in the surrounding country.

She was an impulsive, fashionable and carefree 1920's woman who embodied the essence of the Gatsby Girl -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda. As Fitzgerald said, "I married the heroine of my stories." All of the eight short stories contained in this collection were inspired by Zelda. Fitzgerald, one of the foremost writers of American fiction, found early success as a short story writer for the most widely read magazine of the early 20th century --...

A teenager from a small Mississippi River town is sent to a private boarding school near Boston, surrounded by wealthy classmates, but has a secret that would amaze them all.

A privileged, selfish young man decides that good and evil aren't any standard to him, and that cutting corners is the way to succeed.

From boarding school to the business world, a man gets into confrontations that lead to him being punched in the face. But each time he learns something, and that-in turn-leads to great success.