Fitzgerald: The Love of the Last Tycoon : A Western Paperback / softback
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli
Part of the The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald series
Paperback / softback
Description
Even in its incomplete form The Love of The Last Tycoon has achieved a reputation as the best novel about Hollywood.
When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes.
In 1941 the 'unfinished novel' was published in a text for general readers by Edmund Wilson under the title The Last Tycoon.
For more than fifty years this edition, which is not true to the original work in progress, has been the only one available.
This critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon, first published in 1994, utilises Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescipts, and working notes to establish the first authoritative text of the work.
The volume includes a detailed history of the gestation, composition, and publication of the novel; full textual apparatus with editorial notes; fascimiles of the drafts; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references for contemporary readers.
The reconstruction of Fitzgerald's plan for the thirteen unwritten episodes is particularly useful.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's incomplete masterpiece is restored its 1940 state, and thus made fully accessible to a cross-section of readers.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:450 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/03/2014
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- ISBN:9781107638372
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:450 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/03/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107638372
