Tales of the Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1922

A story collection ranging from social satire to fantasy, including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'.

Books mentioned in Tales of the Jazz Age (12)

• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “Yes, I've read 'Ivanhoe' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.'”
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper: “'The Last of the Mohicans.' THE YOUNG MAN: That's by Cooper.”
• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.: “"'Two Years Before the Mast,' by Henry James." (text's attribution is a joke)”
• Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “It was 'Evangeline.' JULIE: That's a fib.”
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde: “'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' he made up in prison.”
• The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright: “'The Eyes of the World,' by Harold Bell Wright”
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser: “'The Faerie Queene' by Edmund Spenser lay before him under the tremulous candle-light.”
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “Walter Pater's version of 'Robinson Crusoe.'”
• The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: “began reading aloud very softly: The Rape of Lucrece”
• The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard by Anatole France: “look up your first edition of the 'Crime of Sylvester Bonnard'”
• The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “I meant 'The Skeleton in Armor.'”
• On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw by Thomas W. Jackson: “half a dozen books--Joe Miller's 'Slow Train thru Arkansas'”