Tales of the Jazz Age

Name: Tales of the Jazz Age
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.9 (26 reviews)
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781666544800

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Full Cast

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 01/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Written in a decade when American music and literature were exploding in new directions, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories that capture the spirit of the times. The author of The Great Gatsby divided this collection into three parts: My Last Flappers, Fantasies, and Unclassified Masterpieces. Among these beloved short works is the classic The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which describes a man who grows younger in appearance as he ages.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His literature mainly focused on the Jazz Age in the 1920s and The Lost Generation. Best known for his legendary title The Great Gatsby, his other notable works include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night, and the short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age.

About Full Cast

A diverse cast of individuals worked together to achieve the brilliant sound and performances contained in this audiobook.

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