With James L. W. West III's The Great Gatsby: A Variorum Edition, the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald officially comes to a close after eighteen volumes across twenty-eight years. As scholars well know, the Herculean effort that has gone into the series has standardized texts whose original book and/or periodical appearances were riddled with typos and spelling errors; provided illuminating annotations of the more obscure references Fitzgerald sowed into his texts; made conveniently available essays and short stories relegated to out-of-print sources; and clarified composition histories whose details are scattered all too often among a horizon-wide variety of correspondence, drafts, tear sheets, and galleys. Although the Cambridge Edition does not claim to gather every scrap of ephemera known to exist—as West acknowledges elsewhere, the estate continues to decline to reprint five stories deemed inferior (LK xviii; Curnutt 247)—the series nevertheless demonstrates the continued importance...

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