F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

This critical edition of The Great Gatsby draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, together with Fitzgerald's subsequent revisions to key passages to provide the first authoritative text of one of the classic works of the twentieth century.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Chronology of composition and publication; Introduction; 1. The composition and revision of The Great Gatsby; 2. Reception and reputation; 3. The manuscript; 4. The unrevised galleys; 5. The revised galleys; 6. Editorial principles and procedures; The Great Gatsby: Substantive emendations and textual notes; Emendations of accidentals in the base-text; Late Fitzgerald corrections and revisions; Revisions and textual annotations in Fitzgerald's copy; Word division; Explanatory notes; Appendices.

About the author

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age-a term he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories.

Product details

• Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor), Bruccoli Matthew J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781009266895
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926689-5
• No. of pages: 281
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literature & literary studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies