Great Gatsby - An Edition of the Manuscript

Tracing its compositional history, this edition of The Great Gatsby presents the novel in its raw format to reveal the development of character and revision of language. Suitable for critics, teachers and students, this scholarly edition conveys an amalgamation of talent, inspiration and self-discipline which culminated in Fitzgerald's masterpiece.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The holograph of The Great Gatsby; A note on the text; Text of the manuscript; Explanatory notes; Illustrations.

About the author

James L. W. West, III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University.Don C. Skemer is Curator of Manuscripts, Princeton University Library, New Jersey.

Product details

• Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: Don C. Skemer (Editor), Don C. (Princeton University Skemer (Editor), Skemer Don C. (Editor), III West (Editor), III James L. W. West (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108445559
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44555-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary