The curious case of Benjamin Button : and other jazz age stories

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940 (Author). O'Donnell, Patrick, 1948- (Added Author).

Summary: "The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett<U+2014>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<U+2019>s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald<U+2019>s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age."--Publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780143105497 (trade pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxvi, 427 p. ; 20 cm.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Classics, p2008, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Previously published as Jazz Age stories"--Cover.

"Flappers and Philosophers first published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner's Sons 1920 ; Tales of the Jazz Age published by Charles Scribner's Sons 1922"--T.p. verso.

Formatted Contents Note:

The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalyrimple goes wrong -- The four fists -- 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 -- Jemina.