Tales of the Jazz Age contains some of the finest examples of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short fiction, as he chronicles the temper of the riotous 1920s. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a tale of a man living his life backwards, is one of his true masterworks, along with May Day and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. In other stories he adopts a variety of forms: fantasy, parody, a one-act play, etc. with supreme versatility.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896 –1940) is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night are among his masterworks.