Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' - Couverture souple

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521890470 ISBN 13 : 9780521890472

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set in type and the galleys sent to Fitzgerald in France. Fitzgerald then virtually rewrote the novel in galleys, producing the book we know as The Great Gatsby. This ur-version, Trimalchio, has never been published and is markedly different from The Great Gatsby: two chapters were completely rewritten for the published novel, and the rest of the book was heavily revised. Characterization is different, the narrative voice of Nick Carraway is altered and, most importantly, the revelation of Jay Gatsby's past is handled in a wholly different way.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James L. W. West is Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, where he is a Fellow in the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. His most recent book is William Styron, A Life (1998).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521890470
• ISBN 13: 9780521890472
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: West III James L.W.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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