A NOTE ON THE TEXT

Nine of the stories in this volume have been reprinted from original first printings of the volumes in which they were first collected: Flappers and Philosophers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922), and All the Sad Young Men (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926). Only minor typographical corrections have been made, three of them silent punctuation changes. In “May Day” one proper name has been changed and one word has been deleted. Both of these are noted within the text. For the sake of consistency the Roman numeral I has been removed from the beginning of “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.” The text of “Winter Dreams” was reprinted from Metropolitan Magazine, December 1922. The stories are arranged chronologically by date of composition.