The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales

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.