Been looking for this version quite awhile. Fitzgeralds masterpiece of 1920s decadence. Scott Fitzgerald (1980) and editor of New Essays on The Great Gatsby (CUP, 1985). Jay Gatsby seeks to change everything, himself, the world, even the past for the love of Daisy an old flame and another mans wife.
He is the author of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Fitzgerald's masterpiece is thus brought closer to a cross-section of readers, more accessibly and more authentically than ever before. 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helpful glosses on the peculiar geography and chronology of the book and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references that contemporary readers might otherwise miss. 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. The first edition was marred by errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive rewriting in proof and the conditions under which the book was produced moreover, the subsequent transmission of the text introduced proliferating departures from the author's words.
Until now, however, no edition has printed the novel exactly as Fitzgerald intended. 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.
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F.
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