Fitzgerald: All the Sad Young Men

Informationen zum Autor James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. Klappentext This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime. This edition is based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, historical notes, a textual apparatus, illustrations, and appendices. The complex history of composition for 'The Rich Boy' is untangled, and Fitzgerald's thorough revision of 'Winter Dreams' is described. Important passages of sexual innuendo and tabloid-style scandal in 'Jacob's Ladder', 'The Love Boat', and 'Magnetism' - removed by editors at the Saturday Evening Post - are restored to the Cambridge texts. Zusammenfassung This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men! together with eleven uncollected stories. This edition is based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction! historical notes! a textual apparatus! illustrations! and appendices. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; All the Sad Young Men: The Rich Boy; Winter Dreams; The Baby Party; Absolution; Rags; Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les; The Adjuster; Hot and Cold Blood; 'The Sensible Thing'; Gretchen's Forty Winks; Additional Stories, April 1925 - April 1928: One of My Oldest Friends; A Penny Spent; 'Not in the Guidebook'; Presumption; The Adolescent Marriage; The Dance ['In a Little Town']; Your Way and Mine; Jacob's Ladder; The Love Boat; The Bowl; Magnetism; Record of variants; Explanatory notes; Illustrations; Appendix 1. Passages cut from 'The Rich Boy'; Appendix 2. Composition, publication, and earnings.

Product details

• Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: III West (Editor), James L. W. West (Editor), James L. W. III West (Editor), James L. W. West III (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107671737
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67173-7
• No. of pages: 542
• Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works; The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: literary and general