An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The Great Gatsby

  • 3.99 ·
  • 144 Ratings
  • 1651 Want to read
  • 122 Currently reading
  • 291 Have read

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 himself wrote it. From its first edition onward, the text has been subject to rigorous house-styling that has distorted the characteristic rhythms and structure of his sentences. 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helpful glosses on the peculiar geography and chronology of the book; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references that contemporary readers might otherwise miss.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 great masterpiece is thus brought closer to a cross-section of readers, more accessibly and more authentically than ever before.

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
Source: http://www.cambridge.org/nl/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/f-scott-fitzgerald-great-gatsby?format=HB

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Cambridge, UK

Edition Notes

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Copyright Date
1991

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3511.I9 G7 1991

Contributors

Editor
Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26491449M
Internet Archive
greatgatsby0000fitz_t1j1
ISBN 10
0521402301
ISBN 13
9780521402309
LCCN
90023655
OCLC/WorldCat
247388849
Google
0yfauGsKOjAC
Goodreads
81638

Work Description

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.

"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again."

It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.

It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.

--first edition jacket



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