The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-41459-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Pr.

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand illusions, and lost dreams is rendered in a lyrical prose that revives a vanished world of glittering parties and vibrant jazz, where money and deceit walk hand in hand. Rich in humor, sharply observant of status and class, the book tells the story of Jay Gatsby's efforts to keep his faith – in money, in love, in all the promises of America – amid the chaos and conflict of life on Long Island's Gold Coast during the Roaring Twenties. This centennial edition presents the established version of the text in a collector's volume replete with social, cultural, and historical context, and numerous illustrations. The authoritative introduction examines persistent myths about Fitzgerald, his greatest work, and the age he embodies, while offering fresh ways of reading this iconic work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

West, L. W.

West, III, James L. W.

Churchwell, Sarah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronology; Introduction Sarah Churchwell; THE GREAT GATSBY; History of the Text; Selected Editions of the Novel; Annotations and Identifications; Three Cruxes; Alternate Passages from the Manuscript and Galley Proofs.

Über Autor(innen)

West, III, James L. W.
James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor. From 1994 to 2019, he was General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, recently completed in eighteen volumes (sixteen under his editorship). Professor West's variorum edition of The Great Gatsby was the final volume in the series.

Churchwell, Sarah
Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby (2013), The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (2022), Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream (2018), and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (2004).

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Real author – deceased