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Tales of the Jazz Age
The cover of the 1922 first edition
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover artistJohn Held, Jr.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort stories
PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
Publication date
September 22, 1922
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
ISBN1-4341-0001-4

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, 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 “May Day” suitable for the family oriented readership favored by the 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]

  1. ^ Bruccoli, 1998 p. 15, p. 116: Epigraph.
  2. ^ Bruccoli, 1998 p.116: Epigraph.
  3. ^ Bryer, 2000 p. 799: In “A Table of Contents: My Last Flappers”

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