Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information Front panel of the John Held, Jr., dust jacket for Tales of the Jazz Age. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE *** F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Edited by JAMESL.W.WESTIII © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521402385 © 2002 Eleanor Lanahan, Th omas P. Roche, Jr., and Chris Byrne, Trustees under agreement dated 3 July 1975, created by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith. Introduction and notes, © 2002 James L. W. West III. Th is edition, © 2002 Cambridge University Press. Th is publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2002 Paperback edition 2012 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896–1940. Tales of the Jazz Age / F. Scott Fitzgerald; edited by James L. W. West 111. p. cm. – (Th e Cambridge edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0 521 40238 7 I. United States – Social life and customs – 20th century – Fiction. I. West, James L. W. II. Title. ps3511.19 t35 2001 813΄.52 – dc21 2oo1043090 isbn 978-0-521-40238-5 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-17044-4 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Illustrations ix Introduction xi 1. Backgroundxi 2. Submission andrevision xiv 3. Disagreements xv 4. Design xvi 5. Final choices xviii 6. Editorial principles xix TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE A Table of Contents 5 The Jelly-Bean 13 The Camel's Back 33 May Day 61 Porcelain andPink 115 The Diamondas Big as the Ritz 127 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 169 Tarquin of Cheapside 196 ``O Russet Witch!'' 204 The Lees of Happiness 239 Mr. Icky 261 Jemina, the Mountain Girl 269 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information vi Contents Additional Stories, May 1923±March 1925 Dice, Brassknuckles andGuitar 277 DiamondDick 298 The ThirdCasket 318 The Unspeakable Egg 332 John Jackson's Arcady 351 The Pusher-in-the-Face 374 Love in the Night 389 Recordof variants 407 Explanatory notes 499 Illustrations 529 Appendix 1 Dummy table of contents 533 Appendix 2 Composition, publication, and earnings 538 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to Eleanor Lanahan, Thomas P. Roche, Jr., andChris Byrne, Trustees of the F. Scott FitzgeraldEstate, for their support andtheir useful suggestions. I thank WendySchmalz of Harold Ober Associates, Inc., for helping to smooth the way andarranging for permissions. Illustrations for this volume are reproduced from the F. Scott FitzgeraldPapers andthe Charles Scribner's Sons Archives, Manu- script Division, Department of Rare Books andSpecial Collections, Princeton University Library. The early version of the table of contents for Tales of the Jazz Age, publishedin Appendix 1, is preservedin a salesmen's dummy in the Matthew J. andArlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. For assistance with the FitzgeraldPapers at Princeton, I am grateful to Don C. Skemer andAnnaLee Pauls. Patrick Scott and Paul Schultz at the Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, were most helpful with the dummy copy of Tales. The Literature Department, Free Library of Philadelphia, assisted with serial texts. My friendBryant Mangum of Virginia Commonwealth University was generous with his knowledge and his photocopies of hard-to-®nditems. Wes Davis andEleanor C. Baker helpedwith textual andarchival chores. Diane Kaplan, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, assistedwith a note on ``The Diamondas Big as the Ritz''; NedaSalem of the Mark Twain Project at Berkeley identi®ed an important Twain quotation. For ongoing support of the FitzgeraldEdition, I thank Susan Welch, Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts; Don Bialostosky, former Headof the Department of English; andRobert R. Edwards, former Director of the Institute for the Arts and Human- istic Studies at Penn State. Sue Reighard, Carol Ann Mindrup, and Randy Ploog of the Institute have given me daily assistance in my vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information viii Acknowledgments labors. I thank LaVerne Kennevan Maginnis andRobert R. Bleil for attentive work on textual collations andproofreading; Christopher Weinmann has been of essential aidwith annotations. j.l.w.w. iii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information ILLUSTRATIONS BBeginning on page 529) Frontispiece. Front panel of the John Held, Jr., dust jacket for Tales of the Jazz Age. 1. Page 2 from Fitzgerald's 6 February 1922 letter to Maxwell Perkins. 2. Detail from the tearsheets of ``Dice, Brassknuckles andGuitar.'' ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by James L. W. West III Frontmatter More information INTRODUCTION 1. background F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age B1922), though an uneven collection, contains two masterpieces ± ``May Day'' and ``The Diamondas Big as the Ritz.'' Fitzgeraldproducedthebook during a busy period of his career, a time at which he had few uncollectedshort stories on handfrom which to assemble a volume. He hadspent much of the precedingtwo years writing his secondnovel, The Beautiful and Damned B1922), rather than producing short ®ction for the magazine market. Fitzgerald's choices were therefore limited. His solution was to pull together the best of his recent short ®ction, add two items from his days at Princeton, andtie the whole together with a freshly written table of contents featuring droll comments on the stories. In the early months of 1922, Fitzgeraldandhis family were living in a rentedhouse at 626 GoodrichAvenue in his home town of St. Paul, Minnesota. In the previous October his wife, Zelda, hadgiven birth to a daughter, whom they calledScottie. Instal- ments of the serial text of The Beautiful and Damned were appearing in Metropolitan Magazine, andFitzgeraldwas tinkering with the ending of the novel for the book version. He was also thinking about a suitable title for the collection of short stories that he wantedto publish in the fall. In a letter written towardthe endof January, he suggested ``Sideshow'' to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, but Perkins' reaction was lukewarm. ``It does not seem to me to have much life as a title,'' Perkins said. ``It suggests some- thing of secondary importance.'' Fitzgerald's next idea, sent to Perkins in a 6 February letter, was ``In One Reel'' ± a phrase meant to suggest the one-reel ``shorts'' that were popular in movie theaters. Perkins likedthat title better: ```In One Reel' puts these xi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-40238-5 - Tales of the Jazz Age: F.