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Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920–1940
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Description for Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920–1940
hardcover. This volume reconstructs F. Scott Fitzgerald's planned volume of personal essays. Editor(s): West, James L. W., III. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Num Pages: 366 pages, 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic on both occasions, and Fitzgerald died in 1940 without having put his best essays between hard covers. Fortunately Fitzgerald left behind a table of contents, and with this list as a guide it has been possible to publish here the collection that he envisioned, under the title My Lost City. This volume also includes several of Fitzgerald's autobiographical writings. My Lost City, like the other volumes ... Read more
Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic on both occasions, and Fitzgerald died in 1940 without having put his best essays between hard covers. Fortunately Fitzgerald left behind a table of contents, and with this list as a guide it has been possible to publish here the collection that he envisioned, under the title My Lost City. This volume also includes several of Fitzgerald's autobiographical writings. My Lost City, like the other volumes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521402392
SKU
V9780521402392
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About F. Scott Fitzgerald
James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.
Reviews for Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920–1940
'The result is a wealth of context for these very contemporary essays …' Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort University