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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. This authoritative collector's edition provides fascinating cultural and historical context and many rich illustrations. Readers from all backgrounds will appreciate…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West III, Amor Towles
100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION- A richly illustrated deluxe edition of the American classic, with illuminating commentary by a preeminent Fitzgerald scholar
The most authoritative edition ever published- Read Gatsby exactly as…
The first-ever print edition of the script for the 1926 Broadway adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Owen Davis, 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner, and George Cukor, later of Hollywood fame, turned…
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James L. W. West III
A collection of essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III, covering editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. Discusses the treatment of…
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A collection of eleven essays on the career and texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing on the delicate balance in Fitzgerald’s career between money and literary respectability.
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To write it took three months; to conceive it-three minutes; to collect the data in it-all my life. So said F. Scott Fitzgerald regarding This Side of Paradise, the novel…
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This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the…
Sophie’s Choice: A Contemporary Casebook is a collection of interpretations and reactions to William Styron’s famous 1979 novel of the Holocaust.
Theodore Dreiser
For Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt was a good career move. Now, with this Pennsylvania edition, we know that it is also a great novel. -New York Times
F.Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W West III
Library of America presents the definitive novel of the Jazz Age in an authoritative new text--along with a quartet of brilliant stories that explore variations on the theme of desperate…
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F Scott Fitzgerald,James L W West III (Pennsylvania State University)
This self-portrait of a great writer charts Fitzgerald’s progression from exuberant and cocky with What I Think and Feel at 25, to mature and reflective with One Hundred False Starts…
F. Scott Fitzgerald,James L. W. West III (Pennsylvania State University)
This final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is based on the 1925 first edition of the author’s masterpiece. Historical annotations provide identifications of…
This edition includes a detailed account of the composition of the novel, a textual apparatus, a chronology of composition, and, uniquely, three versions of the ending. Explanatory notes situate The…
This new critical edition brings into being an annotated text based on Fitzgerald’s original manuscript.
Taps at Reveille brings together a group of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best stories from the 1920s and 1930s, including ‘Crazy Sunday’, ‘Babylon Revisited’, and the previously unknown story ‘Thank You…
Fitzgerald planned to publish a collection of his personal essays, but never did. Fortunately he left behind a table of contents, and it has been possible to reconstruct the collection…
A Change of Class provides freshly edited texts, based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts, of twenty short stories published between 1931 and 1937. Important readings, edited out at the Post…
This volume in the acclaimed scholarly edition of Fitzgerald's works collects his writings for high school and Princeton University magazines. Explanatory notes, illustrations and textual information are included.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Tender Is the Night (published 1934) in a series of extensively reworked drafts over nine years. Using Fitzgerald's working materials - notes, diagrams, holographs, typescripts, proofs…
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West III
This final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is based on the 1925 first edition of the author's masterpiece. Historical annotations provide identifications of…
This volume brings together three series of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with a critical introduction, full textual apparatus and explanatory notes. The texts published here are based on…
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantic and witty first novel is now available in a beautifully designed special collector’s edition.
This volume of the Cambridge Edition includes thirteen short stories published by Fitzgerald in Esquire, together with the entire Pat Hobby series. The volume provides restored, accurate texts based on…
This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven uncollected stories. This edition is based…
The first edition of Trimalchio, original version of Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby.
This volume in the acclaimed scholarly edition of Fitzgerald’s works collects his writings for high school and Princeton University magazines. Explanatory notes, illustrations and textual information are included.
Last Kiss is a miscellany that brings together a variety of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writings from throughout his career, including The Vegetable, his only published play. The texts, many of…
Last Kiss is a miscellany that brings together a variety of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings from throughout his career, including The Vegetable, his only published play. The texts, many of…
Flappers and Philosophers (1920) was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first collection. Part of the authoritative Cambridge Edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald, this volume now appears in paperback for the first time…
This volume in the authoritative critical edition of Fitzgerald’s works reproduces his second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age, together with several uncollected stories from the early…
This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of Fitzgerald’s literary career. Published in 1920, the novel captures the gaudy decade that was to follow in America. This critical edition…
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Tender Is the Night (published 1934) in a series of extensively reworked drafts over nine years. Using Fitzgerald’s working materials - notes, diagrams, holographs, typescripts, proofs…
This scholarly edition of Fitzgerald’s second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes at least two masterpieces - ‘May Day’ and ‘The Diamond as Big as…
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…
Hidden under layers of error and corruption, the original version of Sister Carrie has finally emerged. The editors of this new edition have gone back to the original handwritten manuscript…
Tom Kromer
The works of the depression-era writer Tom Kromer are collected for the first time into a volume that depicts with searing realism life on the bum in the 1930s and…
Tracing its compositional history, this edition of The Great Gatsby presents the novel in its raw format to reveal the development of character and revision of language. Suitable for critics…
Jackson R. Bryer,Sarah Sue Goldsmith
Published to coincide with the novel’s centennial in 2022, this collection approaches The Beautiful and Damned for its insights more than its faults. Prominent Fitzgerald scholars analyse major themes and…
