
Before Gatsby
The First Twenty-six Stories
F.Scott Fitzgerald(Author)
Matthew J. Bruccoli(Editor)
University of South Carolina Press
Published on 1. July 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-1-57003-371-1 (ISBN)
Description
FOR THE FIRST TIME, all the commercially published short stories F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote before and during his work on what would become his great American novel, The Great Gatsby, have been collected in one volume. Published between 1919 and 1923, these twenty-six stories - most of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and in two Fitzgerald volumes, Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age - document the striking development of Fitzgerald's professionalism and short-story craftsmanship during his twenties. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, the foremost expert on Fitzgerald, the annotated and generously illustrated collection reproduces magazine artwork, manuscripts, advertisements, and photographs that provide a rich contextual backdrop for understanding the ways American life shaped Fitzgerald's fiction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: Twelfth Grade and over
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
56 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
757 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57003-371-1 (9781570033711)
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Persons
MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI, Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is a leading authority on F. Scott Fitzgerald and American literature of the 1920s. He is the author of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the editorial director of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. He lives in Colombia.