F Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales F Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and the Other Jazz Age Tales collects four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best short, fantastic stories under one title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -- A surreal story about a man who is born as a feeble old man, and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby at the end of his life. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz -- Fitzgerald's preoccupation with moneyed society takes on a fantastical form, in a playful yet sinister fairy tale about a family so wealthy they are entirely above the law. Tarquin of Cheapside -- A mysterious and distraught man, being pursued in the night, begs the help of an obsessed bookworm. O Russet Witch! -- A contemporary Merlin is torn between the duty and responsibility of work, financial, and family pressures, and the beautiful woman who represents his every inner wish for a spontaneous, carefree life. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Fitzgerald was the self-styled spokesman of the “Lost Generation,†Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories.