The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott; O'Donnell, PatrickEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-08-26
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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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 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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