Tales of the Jazz Age

　　費茲傑羅第二部短篇小說集，一共包括十一個短篇。篇篇情節生動，寓意深刻，藝術感強烈，記錄並描繪了年輕一代的夢想、追求、愛情、痛苦、失望、艱辛、 迷茫等復雜的人生經歷，折射出光彩奪目的爵士時代的異彩，高度戲劇化地表現了現代意識和傳統觀念之間的劇烈矛盾沖突。有些如《駱駝的后背》、《返老還童》 等，經過改編之后還被好萊塢拍成了電影。

　　本書中譯本<<爵士時代的故事>>由上海譯文出版社出版

　　Tales of the Jazz Age features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to write The Great Gatsby, and to become one of the enduring icons of American literature.

　　This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.

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史考特‧費茲傑羅（F. Scott Fitzgerald，1896-1940）

　　美國小說家。 出生於明尼蘇達州聖保羅市。父親窮困卻有貴族習氣，母親偏狹而能幹；這使他對生活抱著典型美國式的矛盾態度，他認為美國生活既庸俗又絢麗、充滿希望。其文 學才能在普林斯頓大學就讀期間即嶄露頭角。1920年出版《塵世樂園》（This Side of Paradise）一夕成名，旋即被冠以代表「爵士年代」精神的作家。成名後與富家女賽爾坦（Zelda Sayre）結婚，成為美國最耀眼的放逐夫妻，聞名於巴黎與紐約之間。1925年出版傳世傑作《大亨小傳》（The Great Gatsby）。1934年出版《夜未央》（Tender Is the Night），而紅透歐美藝文界。1920-30年代期間曾在著名雜誌《星期六晚郵》（The Saturday Evening Post）及《老爺》（Esquire）等發表短篇小說，名利雙收。旅歐期間因賽爾坦精神崩潰及經濟不佳而返抵美國。費茲傑羅開始為好萊塢電影工作室撰寫 劇本維持生計。1940年尚未完成《最後一位影壇大亨》（The Last Tycoon），即因心臟病去世

　　F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, "This Side of Paradise," in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time between New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include "The Beautiful and Damned," "The Great Gatsby," and "Tender Is the Night." He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on "The Love of the Last Tycoon." For his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, Fitzgerald stands as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.