Known today primarily as the author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections--Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age--came out almost immediately after the stories had appeared in magazines. With stories like "The Ice Palace, " "Bernice Bobs Her Hair, " and "The Jelly Bean, " he portrayed the emotional depth of a society devoted to excess and racing heedlessly towards catastrophe that was only a few years ahead.