F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald

My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920 1940
Herausgeber: West, James L. W. III; West Iii, James L. W.

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Produktbeschreibung

Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic on both occasions, and Fitzgerald died in 1940 without having put his best essays between hard covers. Fortunately Fitzgerald left behind a table of contents, and with this list as a guide it has been possible to publish here the collection that he envisioned, under the title My Lost City. This volume also includes several of Fitzgerald's autobiographical writings. My Lost City, like the other volumes in the Cambridge Edition, provides accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts and typescripts. Words and passages cut by magazine editors have been restored to several of the essays. A textual apparatus has been included, along with full explanatory notes identifying people, places, books, historical events, and other details.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9781107690837
• ISBN-10: 1107690838
• Artikelnr.: 40788924

Autorenporträt

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age-a term he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories.

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Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Fitzgerald's Selections, 1936: 1. Who's Who - and Why (1920)
2. Princeton (1927)
3. What I Think and Feel at 25 (1922)
4. How to Live on $36,000 a Year (1924)
5. How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year (1924)
6. Imagination - and a Few Mothers (1923)
7. 'Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!' (1924)
8. How to Waste Material (1926)
9. One Hundred False Starts (1933)
10. Ring (1933)
11. A Short Autobiography (1929)
12. Girls Believe in Girls (1930)
13. My Lost City (1935/1940)
14. 'Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number' (1934)
15. Echoes of the Jazz Age (1931)
16. The Crack-Up (1936)
17. Pasting It Together (1936)
18. Handle with Care (1936)
Part II. Additional Essays, 1936-1940: 19. Auction - Model 1934 (1934)
20. Sleeping and Waking (1934)
21. Author's House (1936)
22. Afternoon of an Author (1936)
23. An Author's Mother (1936)
24. Early Success (1937)
25. My Generation (1939)
Record of Variants
Explanatory notes
Illustrations
Appendix 1. 'Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number -'
Appendix 2. Publication and Earnings.