Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-six Stories - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F.Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570033714 ISBN 13: 9781570033711

Publisher: University South Carolina Pr, 2001

Synopsis

FOR THE FIRST TIME, all the commercially published short stories F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote before and during his work on what would become his great American novel, The Great Gatsby, have been collected in one volume. Published between 1919 and 1923, these twenty-six stories - most of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and in two Fitzgerald volumes, Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age - document the striking development of Fitzgerald's professionalism and short-story craftsmanship during his twenties. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, the foremost expert on Fitzgerald, the annotated and generously illustrated collection reproduces magazine artwork, manuscripts, advertisements, and photographs that provide a rich contextual backdrop for understanding the ways American life shaped Fitzgerald's fiction.

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About the Author

MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI, Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is a leading authority on F. Scott Fitzgerald and American literature of the 1920s. He is the author of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the editorial director of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. He lives in Colombia.

Edition details

• Publisher: University South Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570033714
• ISBN 13: 9781570033711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Bruccoli Matthew J.