The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

by Fitzgerald, F. Scott; O'Donnell, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780143105497
• ISBN10: 0143105493
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-26
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett—plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author of The Great Gatsby IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this Lost Generation” been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald’s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald’s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.

Author Biography

F. Scott Fitzg erald (1896-û1940) is the author of five novels, including The Great Gatsby, and six volumes of short stories. Patrick O-'Donnell is the chairman of the English department at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories	p. 1
Flappers and Philosophers	p. 3
The Offshore Pirate	p. 5
The Ice Palace	p. 35
Head and Shoulders	p. 59
The Cut-Glass Bowl	p. 83
Bernice Bobs Her Hair	p. 102
Benediction	p. 126
Dalyrimple Goes Wrong	p. 142
The Four Fists	p. 159
Tales of the Jazz Age	p. 175
My Last Flappers
The Jelly-Bean	p. 177
The Camel's Back	p. 195
May Day	p. 221
Porcelain and Pink	p. 270
Fantasies
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz	p. 280
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	p. 318
Tarquin of Cheapside	p. 343
"O Russet Witch!"	p. 350
Unclassified Masterpieces
The Lees of Happiness	p. 379
Mr. Icky	p. 400
Jemina	p. 407
Appendix	p. 413
Explanatory Notes	p. 417
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