Project support for this volume was provided by Roger Lathbury.
#GREAT GATSBY AUTHOR FULL#
This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker. Scott Fitzgerald his variorum edition of The Great Gatsby was the final volume in the series. From 1994 to 2019, West was the General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King (2005), among other books. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. He is the author of William Styron: A Life (1998) and The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. West III, editor, is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University.
#GREAT GATSBY AUTHOR PROFESSIONAL#
These brilliant writings showcase the versatility and range of a professional author who earned his living from the magazine trade. Rounding out the volume are sixteen short stories and nine pieces of nonfiction, all published in magazines from 1920 to 1926 and not collected by Fitzgerald. Its poetic prose, its themes of money, class, and American optimism, and its enduring hold on the popular imagination have made it a frequent candidate for “the Great American Novel.” The newly edited text presented here corrects errors, reinstates Fitzgerald’s preferred American spellings, and incorporates emendations he made on working galley proofs and in his personal copy of the book.Īll the Sad Young Men, Fitzgerald’s third collection of stories, features some of his best work, including “Winter Dreams,” “Absolution,” and “The Rich Boy”-all part of the “Gatsby-cluster” of stories written around the time Fitzgerald was working on the novel, and each a variation on the theme of desperate longing for an unattainable someone or something. Published five years after his stunning debut with This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby solidified Fitzgerald’s reputation as a novelist and established him as one of the most important American writers of his generation. All are presented in new, corrected texts prepared for Library of America by a leading Fitzgerald textual scholar. In 1925, The Great Gatsby was published and hailed as an artistic and material success for its young author, F. This Library of America volume brings together two classic books written at the height of his fame and creative powers-the novel The Great Gatsby (1925) and the story collection All the Sad Young Men (1926)-along with a generous selection of uncollected stories and magazine articles from the same period.
Scott Fitzgerald is our foremost literary chronicler of the Jazz Age. As did other writers like James Joyce with his masterpiece Ulysses. A matchless prose stylist with a genius for dialogue and imagery, F. He depicted lost people, depression, reality, and various types of corruption.
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