Tales of the Jazz Age

US writer Scott (1896-1940) published the collection of short stories in 1922. Editor James L. W. West III (English, Pennsylvania State U.) characterizes it as uneven, but calls attention to May Day and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz as masterpieces. In addition to the 12 stories of the original collection, he adds seven more written between May 1923 and March 1925, a record of variants, notes explaining period references, photographs of a couple manuscript pages, and information on the first pu…