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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December 01 2019
The Great Gatsby: A Variorum Edition
Save Me the Waltz
Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904–1929
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Fiction: From Ragtime to Swing Time
A Fitzgerald Potpourri
The Great Gatsby: A Variorum Edition
By Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Edited by West, James L. W.III. Cambridge, UK
: Cambridge University Press
, 2019
, 266 pp.Save Me the Waltz
By Fitzgerald, Zelda, with an introduction by Templeton, Erin E.. London
: Handheld Press
, 2018
, 268 pp.Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904–1929
By Snyder, Christopher A.. New York
: Pegasus
, 2019
, 346.F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Fiction: From Ragtime to Swing Time
By Adams, Jade Broughton. Edinburgh
: Edinburgh University Press
, 2019
, 216 pp.The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2019) 17 (1): 248–271.
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Kirk Curnutt; The Great Gatsby: A Variorum Edition
Save Me the Waltz
Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904–1929
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Fiction: From Ragtime to Swing Time. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 December 2019; 17 (1): 248–271. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.17.1.0248
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