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Informationen zum Autor James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. Klappentext A selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, most of them first published in Esquire magazine between 1934 and 1940. Zusammenfassung This volume of the Cambridge Edition includes thirteen short stories published by Fitzgerald in Esquire! together with the entire Pat Hobby series. The volume provides restored! accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts! typescripts! and proofs and includes selected facsimiles of Fitzgerald's manuscripts and typescripts for the Esquire writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Section I. Esquire Stories, 1935-41: Three acts of music; The ants at Princeton; 'I didn't get over'; An alcoholic case; The long way out; The guest in room nineteen; In the holidays; Financing Finnegan; Design in plaster; The lost decade; On an ocean wave; The woman from '21'; Three hours between planes; Section II. The Pat Hobby Series, 1940-1: Pat Hobby's Christmas wish; A man in the way; 'Boil some water - lots of it'; Teamed with genius; Pat Hobby and Orson Welles; Pat Hobby's secret; Pat Hobby, putative father; The homes of the stars; Pat Hobby does his bit; Pat Hobby's preview; No harm trying; A patriotic short; On the trail of Pat Hobby; Fun in an artist's studio; Two old-timers; Mightier than the sword; Pat Hobby's college days; Record of variants; Explanatory notes; Illustrations; Appendix 1. 'Dearly beloved'; Appendix 2. Publication and earnings.
