Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories

Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories"It was an age of miracles," declared F. Scott Fitzgerald of the 1920s, "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." No author is more closely associated with the decade than Fitzgerald, who christened it the "Jazz Age" and chronicled its manners and morals. His lyrical, witty fables of society life reveal the disillusionment and cynicism behind the Roaring Twenties' glamorous faade. Six of Fitzgerald's best loved

Although he toured widely as both a player and conductor

energetic manner of performance

portraying the rebellion of youthful genius against conventional standards

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he relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds — an effort that ultimately discouraged belief in predestination and encouraged capitalism

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pioneering work with calculus and optics

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The author's skill at depicting the follies of human nature in a manner both realistic and affectionate elevates this tale of provincial matchmaking to the heights of scintillating satire

combines an appealing presentation of Indian legend with factual and illustrative material that gives each myth meaningful perspective

and sculpture in stone and wood as well as such exotic materials as amber