This 1922 collection gathers eleven stories written in the first flush of Fitzgerald's fame, along with a playful preface about the era he had helped to name. The tales vary widely, from social comedy and fantasy to sharper studies of money and youth.
The volume includes The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, a wild fable about wealth and greed. It gives a lively picture of the early 1920s and of Fitzgerald's range as a storyteller.
Quotes
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
"Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular — I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose.
You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected.