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    Product details:

    • Edition number New ed, New edition
    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 30 August 1991

    • ISBN 9780521402309
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages280 pages
    • Size 222x148x25 mm
    • Weight 448 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 8 b/w illus.
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    Short description:

    This critical edition of The Great Gatsby provides the first authoritative text of one of the classic works of the twentieth century.

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    Long description:

    Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of the most popular and widely read novels in the English language. Until now, however, no edition has printed the novel exactly as Fitzgerald himself wrote it. From its first edition onward, the text has been subject to rigorous house-styling that has distorted the characteristic rhythms and structure of his sentences. This critical edition draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, together with Fitzgerald's subsequent revisions to key passages, to provide the first authoritative text of The Great Gatsby. This volume also includes a detailed account of the genesis, composition, and publication of the novel; a full textual apparatus; crucial early draft material; helpful glosses on the peculiar geography and chronology of the book; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references that contemporary readers might otherwise miss. Fitzgerald's great masterpiece is thus brought closer to a cross-section of readers, more accessibly and more authentically than ever before.

    "Although it is hard to believe this novel could improve, it has. Considering the book's significance to American letters, the Cambridge edition of The Great Gatsby could very well be the literary publishing event of the year." Library Journal

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgments; Chronology of composition and publication; Introduction; 1. The composition and revision of The Great Gatsby; 2. Reception and reputation; 3. The manuscript; 4. The unrevised galleys; 5. The revised galleys; 6. Editorial principles and procedures; The Great Gatsby: Substantive emendations and textual notes; Emendations of accidentals in the base-text; Late Fitzgerald corrections and revisions; Revisions and textual annotations in Fitzgerald's copy; Word division; Explanatory notes; Appendices.

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