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A mountain of diamond, a life lived backward, and a dance a penniless young man wants: welcome to Fitzgerald’s restless world.
In Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers eleven short stories where glamour meets unease. The Jelly-Bean follows Jim Powell, a young man in Georgia with no money and no plans, toward a rich girl and the hope of a dance. May Day moves to New York, where a spring day and night reveal a city losing its balance.
The collection moves from parties and flirtations into strange possibilities. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz imagines wealth on a fantastic scale. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button follows a man born old who grows young. In The Camel’s Back, a costume party becomes a comedy of mistaken identity. Together, these tales explore an age that spends freely yet feels restless.
What you’ll discover
- A dance worth wanting Follow Jim Powell into a small-town story where poverty meets the pull of glamour.
- A city off balance Enter the New York of May Day, alive with postwar restlessness across day and night.
- Wealth beyond ordinary limits Discover a mountain made of diamond and a fantasy that tests what money can buy.
- A life in reverse Meet Benjamin Button, whose journey from old age toward youth turns an ordinary life backward.
- Comedy beneath the glamour Enjoy costume-party confusion alongside stories of dances, clubs, quick money, and restless lives.
Who will love it
For readers who love short fiction, the 1920s, and Fitzgerald before The Great Gatsby. It suits anyone who enjoys wit, glamour and a sharp edge, with stories of money, youth and class mixing realism, fantasy and comedy.
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- A poor boy meets a rich girl in The Jelly-Bean
- May Day shows a city losing its balance
- A mountain of diamond tests what wealth can buy
- Benjamin Button lives his life backward
- The lighter tales turn society into comedy
- What the stories say about the Jazz Age
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Cuentos de la era del jazz
by F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1922
A mountain made of diamond tests what wealth can buy in stories where glamour sits beside worry.
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Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922.
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A poor boy meets a rich girl in The Jelly-Bean
The collection opens with The Jelly-Bean, set in a small town in Georgia. Its hero is Jim Powell, a young man who drifts through the days with no money and no plans. People in town use the word jelly-bean for a loafer like him, a man who hangs about pool halls and lives on little. He is not unkind and he is not stupid, but he has settled for very little.
The story shifts when Jim goes to a dance at the country club. There he sees Nancy Lamar, a bright and willful girl from a well-off family. She is used to being admired and she is used to getting her own way. Fitzgerald sets the two of them together at a party where drink flows and manners slip.
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What is Tales of the Jazz Age about?
It is a collection of eleven stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. They deal with money, youth, love and class in the years after the First World War, mixing realism, fantasy and comedy.
Which stories are in Tales of the Jazz Age?
The book holds The Jelly-Bean, The Camel's Back, May Day, Porcelain and Pink, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tarquin of Cheapside, O Russet Witch!, The Lees of Happiness, Mr. Icky and Jemina the Mountain Girl.
Is the Benjamin Button story the same as the movie?
No. Fitzgerald's story is much shorter and drier, set in Baltimore from 1860. Benjamin is born looking old and grows younger. The film changed many details and characters, so the two differ greatly.
The author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896–1940 · American novelist
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He lived in the United States and France. He published This Side of Paradise in 1920, The Beautiful and Damned in 1922, and The Great Gatsby in 1925. He died in Hollywood in 1940.
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