TrackChapterLength
100 - Table of Contents8:37
201 - The Jelly-Bean39:43
302 - The Camel's Back54:44
403 - May Day Part I53:44
504 - May Day Part II50:38
605 - Porcelain and Pink20:33
706 - The Diamond As Big As the Ritz Part I51:13
807 - The Diamond As Big As the Ritz Part II35:26
908 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button54:46
1009 - Tarquin of Cheapside14:42
1110 - 'O Russet Witch!'1:07:21
1211 - The Lees of Happiness46:03
1312 - Mr. Icky15:16
1413 - Jemina9:52

Notes
Running Time: 8 hours 43 minutes        
Read by: Don W. Jenkins    
Book Coordinator: Don W. Jenkins    
Meta Coordinator: Bart de Leeuw    
Proof Listener: Dawn Larsen

Artwork
Cover: Illustration for cover of Tales of the Jazz Age, 1922, painted by John Held, Jr.
Inset: Photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald c. 1921 in "The World's Work" (June 1921 issue).
DVD Insert background image:: Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Gordon Bryant, Shadowland magazine (1921).

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In 1922 the publication of Tales of the Jazz Age confirmed the conventional wisdom of the time that F. Scott Fitzgerald was the most popular, most widely read author in the United States. Like any marketing agent intent on influencing popular culture, Fitzgerald’s publisher, Scribner & Sons, rightfully capitalized on the demand for the author’s work by publishing the bound collection of eleven stories written between 1920 and 1922, and during Fitzgerald’s undergraduate days at Princeton. The difference between Tales of the Jazz Age and other more recent examples of “rush-to-print” product by artists of lesser stature is that F. Scott Fitzgerald was and remains one of America’s greatest writers. And the eleven stories that comprise Tales of the Jazz Age evidence that fact. Sometimes writers compare writing with breathing: The quick exhalation is a poem; the deep breath is a short story, and breathing in the steady sinus rhythm of life is akin to a novel. In his twenties, and even later when hard living began to take its toll, Fitzgerald breathed deeply, and these short stories exhibit the inevitability of his genius, what Hemingway realized was the tautology of his gift – that his gifts were his, having been given to him, virtually whole and complete. (Summary by Michael Hogan)


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EAN - DVD case 0684758936370
EAN - CD jacket 0686175923636
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Case
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
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Read by Don W. Jenkins
Length 8 hours 43 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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