Tales of the Jazz Age: Stories poignant and surprising

poignant and surprising

For Americans under the age of fifty-five

desires one thing above all else: revenge against the British Crown and its system of colonial "humanitarianism

Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable

Tales of the Jazz Age: Stories poignant and surprisingEvoking the Jazz Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer's most famous and celebrated stories. In "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," an extraordinary child is born an old man, growing younger as the world ages around him. "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," a fable of excess and greed, shows two boarding school classmates mired in deception as they make