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The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Description for The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories
hardcover. An authoritative edition of these stories from 1928-36, with a critical introduction, full textual apparatus and explanatory notes. Editor(s): West, James L. W., III. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Num Pages: 397 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 602.
This volume brings together three series of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Basil Duke Lee stories of 1928–29, the Josephine Perry stories of 1930–31, and the Gwen Bowers stories of 1936. The texts published here are based on surviving typescripts that preserve Fitzgerald's final revisions for their first publication in the Saturday Evening Post. Collations have revealed cuts and revisions by the Post editors aimed at removing profanity and blasphemy, sexual innuendo, real names of people and places, and references to racial prejudice. These passages have been restored to the Cambridge texts. This volume includes a scholarly ... Read more
This volume brings together three series of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Basil Duke Lee stories of 1928–29, the Josephine Perry stories of 1930–31, and the Gwen Bowers stories of 1936. The texts published here are based on surviving typescripts that preserve Fitzgerald's final revisions for their first publication in the Saturday Evening Post. Collations have revealed cuts and revisions by the Post editors aimed at removing profanity and blasphemy, sexual innuendo, real names of people and places, and references to racial prejudice. These passages have been restored to the Cambridge texts. This volume includes a scholarly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Number of Pages
397
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521769730
SKU
V9780521769730
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About F. Scott Fitzgerald
James L. W. West III is Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.
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