"It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's voice is "full of money"), its dominance of high school and college curricula, and its claims upon the public imagination. The novel is presented in a newly edited text, correcting numerous errors and restoring Fitzgerald's preferred American spellings. Also included in this volume are Fitzgerald's third collection of stories, All the Sad Young Men, which includes some of the author's best short fiction--"Winter Dreams," "The Rich Boy," and "Absolution"--as well as a generous selection of stories and nonfiction from the period 1920-1926, all in newly corrected texts."--Amazon.
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ISBN:1598537148
ISBN:9781598537147
Physical Description:xii, 744 pages ; 21 cm. print
Publisher:New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2022]
The Great Gatsby -- All the sad young men. The rich boy ; Winter dreams ; The baby party ; Absolution ; Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les ; The adjuster ; Hot and cold blood ; "The sensible thing" ; Gretchen's forty winks -- Uncollected stories, 1920-1296. Myra meets his family ; The smilers ; The popular girl ; Dice, brassknuckles, and guitar ; Diamond Dick ; The third casket ; The unspeakable egg ; John Jackson's arcady ; The pusher-in-the-face ; Love in the night ; One of my oldest friends ; A penny spent ; "Not in the guidebook' ; Presumption ; The adolescent marriage ; The dance -- Nonfiction, 1920-1296. The author's apology ; An interview with Mr.Fitzgerald ; Who's who--and why ; The credo of F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Three cities ; What I think and feel at 25 ; How to live on $36,000 a year ; How to live on practically nothing a year ; How to waste mateial -- Chronolgy.
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