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Tales of the Jazz Age, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Title: Tales of the Jazz Age
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Language: English
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TALES FROM THE JAZZ AGE
BY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
1922
A TABLE OF CONTENTS
MY LAST FLAPPERS
THE JELLY-BEAN
This is a Southern story, with the scene laid in the small Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. I have a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever I write a story about it I receive letters from all over the South denouncing me in no uncertain terms. "The Jelly-Bean," published in "The Metropolitan," drew its full share of these admonitory notes.
It was written under strange circumstances shortly after my first novel was published, and, moreover, it was the first story in which I had a collaborator. For, finding that I was unable to manage the crap-shooting episode, I turned it over to my wife, who,