F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

ISBN-13: 9781009266895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 281 str.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Opis

This critical edition of The Great Gatsby provides the first authoritative text of one of the classic works of the twentieth century.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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.