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FREE READ Ó Tales of the Jazz Age Es gathers all of these early pieces in one volume which together capture the shine and seductive sound of early American jazz the scandalous affronts to religious pieties the nights of drunken revelry and the impending doom of financial moral and intellectual dissolution Spanning the early twentieth century American landscape the Minn The Jelly Bean 25 starsThe Camel s Back 25 starsMay Day 45 starsPorcelain and Pink 25 starsThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz 45 starsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button 55 stars FAVOURITETaruin of Cheapside 35 starsO Russet Witch 55 stars FAVOURITEThe Lees of Happiness 45 starsMr Icky 25 starsJemina the Mountain Girl 35 stars Those Good Gertrudes jazz the scandalous affronts to religious pieties the nights of drunken revelry and the impending doom of financial moral and intellectual dissolution Spanning the early twentieth century American landscape the Minn The Jelly Bean 25 starsThe Camel s Back 25 starsMay Day 45 starsPorcelain and Pink 25 starsThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz 45 starsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button 55 stars FAVOURITETaruin of Cheapside 35 starsO Russet Witch 55 stars FAVOURITEThe Lees of Happiness 45 starsMr Icky 25 starsJemina the Mountain Girl 35 stars
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FREE READ Ó Tales of the Jazz Age Esota of his youth the Princeton college years the sualor and opulence of New York this collection contains unforgettable images of modern America and elouently expresses Fitzgerald's theme of the enchantment and disillusionment of materialism Jazz Age Stories includes The Ice Palace Bernice Bobs Her Hair and A Diamond as Big as The Ri I can conclude having finished this collection of short stories that with the exception of The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald is just not really for me This collection was saved in my opinion by The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Porcelain and Pink and Jemina the Mountain Girl Barring some moments of subtle but shocking endings I found the rest of the stories dull and the characters empty and the prose ineffective Men on a Mission Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities just not really for me This collection was saved in my opinion by The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Porcelain and Pink and Jemina the Mountain Girl Barring some moments of subtle but shocking endings I found the rest of the stories dull and the characters empty and the prose ineffective
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FREE READ Ó Tales of the Jazz Age A generation grown up to find all Gods dead all wars fought all faiths in man shaken was how F Scott Fitzgerald defined his age Perhaps nowhere in American fiction is this statement better exemplified than in Fitzgerald's first two volumes of short fiction Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age Penguin's new Jazz Age Stori Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories published in 1922 although most had been published earlier in national magazines Fitzgerald published 4 novels that was his preferred way of writing But he wrote short stories to make money and being in constant financial trouble it was the fastest way for him to make cash This collection was good it contains probably his most famous short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as well as a few other very good ones A couple I thought were nonsensical and not up to Fitzgerald s best It s certainly worth the time and it is aptly named because if you ask almost anyone to name one writer associated with the Jazz Age or the Roaring 20 s 9 out of 10 will say F Scott Fitzgerald He defined that generation for writers or accurately it defined him