Tales From The Jazz Age

Name: Tales From The Jazz Age
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781911065876

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Eloise Fairfax

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 07/30/2024

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

The book reflects the cultural and social changes of the Jazz Age, a time characterized by optimism, decadence, and excess. The stories explore themes of love, wealth, ambition, and disillusionment, as well as the disillusionment of the American Dream. Through his characters, Fitzgerald critiques the morality of the wealthy and the emptiness of their lives. The collection provides a unique insight into the era and captures the spirit and essence of the times. From the flappers and their newfound freedom to the stock market boom and eventual crash, Tales from the Jazz Age is a vivid and captivating portrayal of one of the most fascinating periods in American history.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on March 27, 2025

Some lives just ring empty like empty crocks… And F. Scott Fitzgerald was a great scholar of human emptiness… And his stories, despite their wickedness, boast an atmosphere of merry fairytales. In The Jelly-Bean life is a precarious gamble of chance: With the awakening of his emotions, his first perce......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on March 05, 2025

Tales of the Jazz Age highlights the incredible range of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is a collection of short stories, but they vary widely as to genre. My Last Flapper These stories are laugh-out-loud funny. My favorite is The Camel’s Back. In this story, Perry Parkhurst has recently been heartbroken, an......more

Goodreads review by Sue on November 04, 2013

I've been intending to read Fitzgerald for some time and I'm very glad to have begun with this collection of stories. There is such a show of versatility and skill here. Not all stories are equally successful but all are interesting and some are truly wonderful, Among those I particularly enjoyed we......more

Goodreads review by Cara on June 11, 2010

Considering I didn't like The Great Gatsby, I'm amazed at how I'm loving the other works of F. Scott Fitzgerald so far! I read This Side Of Paradise and was enthralled, and this book of short stories was equal parts enchanting and intelligent. I read it on my Kindle, and I ended up highlighting a lo......more