F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Part of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Real Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Editor: Matthew J. Bruccoli
- Date Published: August 1991
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521402309
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Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of the most popular and widely read novels in the English language. Until now, however, no edition has printed the novel exactly as Fitzgerald intended. The first edition was marred by errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive rewriting in proof and the conditions under which the book was produced; moreover, the subsequent transmission of the text introduced proliferating departures from the author's words. This critical edition 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 The Great Gatsby. This volume also includes a detailed account of the genesis, composition, and publication of the novel; a full textual apparatus; crucial early draft material; helpful glosses on the peculiar geography and chronology of the book; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references that contemporary readers might otherwise miss. Fitzgerald's masterpiece is thus brought closer to a cross-section of readers, more accessibly and more authentically than ever before. Matthew J. Bruccoli has published widely. He is the author of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1980) and editor of New Essays on The Great Gatsby (CUP, 1985).
Read more- First edition to print the novel as Fitzgerald himself wrote it - purged of his publisher's editorial interference and house styling
- one of the most successful novels of the twentieth-century as it was intended to be read. Our volume editor, Matthew Bruccoli, is world's leading Fitzgerald scholar
- Full introduction gives details of the composition, publication, and reception of the novel. Explanatory notes gloss a host of topical references
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"Although it is hard to believe this novel could improve, it has. Considering the book's significance to American letters, the Cambridge edition of The Great Gatsby could very well be the literary publishing event of the year." Library Journal
See more reviews"Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and waking." James Dickey
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- Date Published: August 1991
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521402309
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 222 x 148 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.448kg
- availability: Available
Table 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.
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