The Roaring Twenties - Premium Collection

Book excerpt: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s._x000D_ Excerpt:_x000D_ "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire. _x000D_ We were the most powerful nation. Who could tell us any longer what was fashionable and what was fun? Isolated during the European War, we had begun combing the unknown South and West for folkways and pastimes, and there were more ready to hand..."_x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ Echoes of the Jazz Age_x000D_ Tales from the Jazz Age:_x000D_ My Last Flappers:_x000D_ The Jelly-bean_x000D_ The Camel's Back_x000D_ May Day_x000D_ Porcelain and Pink_x000D_ Fantasies:_x000D_ The Diamond As Big As the Ritz_x000D_ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button_x000D_ Tarquin of Cheapside_x000D_ O Russet Witch!_x000D_ Unclassified Masterpieces:_x000D_ The Lees of Happiness_x000D_ Mr. Icky_x000D_ Jemina, the Mountain Girl_x000D_ The Beautiful and Damned_x000D_ The Great Gatsby_x000D_ Babylon Revisited_x000D_ Winter Dreams