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The Great Gatsby Variorum Edition F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby  Variorum Edition By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby Variorum Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald


Summary

This final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is based on the 1925 first edition of the author's masterpiece. Historical annotations provide identifications of persons, places, events, popular songs, and literary works - all now made available to readers, teachers, critics, and scholars.

The Great Gatsby Variorum Edition Summary

The Great Gatsby Variorum Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the author's masterpiece. The variorum text is based on multiple witnesses including the extant holograph of the novel and Fitzgerald's revised galley proofs; the first edition and later impressions from the first-edition plates; and importantly, Fitzgerald's personal copy of the novel, which bears corrections and revisions in his hand. This edition removes instances of over-correction in later editions of the novel, where there are numerous examples of textual corruption, thus giving control of the text back to Fitzgerald. This critical edition includes an introduction, tracing the history of the novel, an emended text, emendation tables, Fitzgerald's 1935 introduction, and fourteen illustrations. Historical annotations provide identifications of persons, places, events, popular songs, and literary works - all now made available to readers, teachers, critics, and scholars.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

James L. W. West, III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor. West is the author of American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900 (1988), William Styron: A Life (1998) and The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love (2005). West has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has had Fulbright appointments in England (at the University of Cambridge) and in Belgium (at the Universite de Liege). West is the General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The Variorum Text; Emendations and variants; Explanatory notes; Illustration; Appendix: introduction to the modern library impression (1934).

Additional information

NPB9780521766203
9780521766203
0521766206
The Great Gatsby Variorum Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2019-04-04
318
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