F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age

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Tales of the Jazz Age

, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second short story collection, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons on 22 September 1922, in accordance with Scribners' usual policy of bringing out a short story collection soon after a novel by the same author – Fitzgerald's second novel,

The Beautiful and Damned

, had appeared on 4 March 1922.

Tales

consisted of eleven previously published stories. Five had appeared in

The Smart Set

, a relatively low-paying but prestigious literary periodical edited by the influential critics H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1880-1956) and George Jean Nathan (1882-1958); five had featured in the better paying “slicks” (magazines printed on coated paper); and one had been published in a newspaper. Nine of the stories are third-person narratives, sometimes…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Tales of the Jazz Age". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 February 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1725, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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