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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of ´The Great Gatsby´
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Paperback. The first edition ever published of Trimalchio, original version of Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby. Editor(s): West, James L. W., III. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set in type and the galleys sent to Fitzgerald in France. Fitzgerald then virtually rewrote the novel in galleys, producing the book we know as The Great Gatsby. This ur-version, Trimalchio, has never been published and is markedly different from The Great Gatsby: two chapters were completely rewritten for the published novel, and the rest ... Read more
This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set in type and the galleys sent to Fitzgerald in France. Fitzgerald then virtually rewrote the novel in galleys, producing the book we know as The Great Gatsby. This ur-version, Trimalchio, has never been published and is markedly different from The Great Gatsby: two chapters were completely rewritten for the published novel, and the rest ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Condition
New
Weight
297g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521890472
SKU
V9780521890472
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About F. Scott Fitzgerald
James L. W. West is Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, where he is a Fellow in the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. His most recent book is William Styron, A Life (1998).
Reviews for F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of ´The Great Gatsby´
"The Cambridge edition of Trimalchio is for scholars and Fitzgerald fanatics...Trimalchio has shown me a new way to love Gatsby. I'm compelled into a vast aesthetic contemplation: I dream of The Great Gatsby as it might have been, greater still-" Adam Begley, New York Observer "...the principle reason to read Trimalchio is to observe a masterpiece taking form ... Read more