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A Change of Class provides freshly edited texts, based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts, of twenty short stories published between 1931 and 1937. Important readings, edited out at the Post and other magazines, have been restored. The volume includes facsimiles, historical annotations, and a full record of emendation.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. Background; 2. Editorial principles; 3. Restorations; 4. Regularizations; Between Three and Four; A Change of Class; A Freeze-Out; Six of One-; Diagnosis; Flight and Pursuit; The Rubber Check; What a Handsome Pair!; On Schedule; More than Just a House; I Got Shoes; The Family Bus; No Flowers; New Types; Her Last Case; The Intimate Strangers; Zone of Accident; Fate in her Hands; Image on the Heart; 'Trouble'; Record of Variants; Explanatory Notes; Illustrations; Appendix. Composition, publication, and earnings.
About the author
James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He has recently published a collected edition of William Styron's non-fiction under the title My Generation (2015).
Summary
A Change of Class provides freshly edited texts, based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts, of twenty short stories published between 1931 and 1937. Important readings, edited out at the Post and other magazines, have been restored. The volume includes facsimiles, historical annotations, and a full record of emendation.
Foreword
Brings together twenty Fitzgerald short stories published between 1931 and 1937 concerning the Great Depression, social striving, class divisions, and professionalism.
