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A NOTE ON THE TEXT
    With only minor typographical corrections made in this edition, the seventeen stories and two one-act plays of this collection are reprinted exactly as they appeared, in the order of their appearance in the first editions of Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age published in 1920 and 1922, respectively, by Scribner’s. For these collections, Fitzgerald revised and corrected the copy of the stories originally published in magazines; the variations between the magazine and book versions of the stories are in most instances minor. Fitzgerald’s commentaries on the individual stories of Tales of the Jazz Age , which appeared under the title of each story, are reproduced in the Appendix. The dedication page of Flappers and Philosophers reads “To Zelda”; that of Tales of the Jazz Age reads “Quite Inappropriately To My Mother.”

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    I wish to gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Peter Berg of the Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections for his help in locating and reproducing the first editions of Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age. My thanks also to Viking/Penguin editor Michael Millman for suggesting this project and for his patience and support in seeing it through to conclusion.

FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS

The Offshore Pirate
    This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as