 The cover of the 1922 first edition | |
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | John Held, Jr. |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short stories |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Publication date | September 22, 1922 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
| ISBN | 1-4341-0001-4 |
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of 11 short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". All of the stories had first appeared, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, the Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair.
Due to its adult theme, Fitzgerald did not consider the short story "May Day" to be suitable for the family oriented readership favored by the Saturday Evening Post. He offered this "masterpiece" to H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, editors at The Smart Set, where it appeared in the July 1920 issue.[1] Fitzgerald termed the story "this somewhat unpleasant tale".[2][3]
- ^ Bruccoli 1998, pp. 15, 116, Epigraph.
- ^ Bruccoli 1998, p. 116, Epigraph.
- ^ Bryer 2000, p. 799: In "A Table of Contents: My Last Flappers"