F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication 1922

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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 27 November 2024.]

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