Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned

Informationen zum Autor F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) est l'un des plus grands écrivains américains du XXe siècle. Surtout connu pour son roman The Great Gatsby, il a capturé dans ses ¿uvres les excès et les désillusions de l'âge du jazz. Sa prose brillante, ses commentaires sociaux acérés et son exploration du rêve américain ont fait de lui une voix déterminante de la littérature américaine. Outre The Great Gatsby, il a écrit Tender Is the Night et This Side of Paradise. Klappentext The latest volume in this critically acclaimed scholarly edition. Zusammenfassung This edition includes a detailed account of the composition of the novel! a textual apparatus! a chronology of composition! and! uniquely! three versions of the ending. Explanatory notes situate The Beautiful and Damned in its times and deepen the reader's understanding of Fitzgerald's sources for the novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 1. Composition; 2. Serialization; 3. Proofing and revision; 4. The ending; 5. Publication and reception; 6. The British edition; 7. Editorial principles; The Beautiful and Damned; Record of variants; Explanatory notes; Illustrations; Appendix: 'The Far-seeing Skeptics'.

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• Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott West Fitzgerald, F. Scott West III Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: 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: 9781107679177
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67917-7
• No. of pages: 454
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald; Cambridge Edition of the Works
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies