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 in the Cambridge Edition, provides accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts and typescripts. Words and passages cut by magazine editors have been restored to several of the essays. A textual apparatus has been included, along with full explanatory notes identifying people, places, books, historical events, and other details.
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'The result is a wealth of context for these very contemporary essays ...' Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort University
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Fitzgerald planned to publish a collection of his personal essays, but never did. Fortunately he left behind a table of contents, and it has been possible to reconstruct the collection that he envisioned, as My Lost City. This volume features authoritative texts, a textual apparatus, and full explanatory notes.
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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Monte Carlo, Ernest Hemingway, Long Island, Liberty Bonds, Fifth Avenue, Nassau Hall, Booth Tarkington, Civil War, Girls Believe, Kracklin Lee, New Jersey, Ring Lardner, Scott Fitzgerald, Beau Rivage, Boopsie Dee, Edmund Wilson, Gertrude Stein, Los Angeles, Polity Club, President Hibben, Smart Set, The Sheik, Thomas Kracklin, Tiger Inn New!
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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Monte Carlo, Ernest Hemingway, Long Island, Liberty Bonds, Fifth Avenue, Nassau Hall, Booth Tarkington, Civil War, Girls Believe, Kracklin Lee, New Jersey, Ring Lardner, Scott Fitzgerald, Beau Rivage, Boopsie Dee, Edmund Wilson, Gertrude Stein, Los Angeles, Polity Club, President Hibben, Smart Set, The Sheik, Thomas Kracklin, Tiger Inn New!
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- This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald on 19 pages
- The Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald on 16 pages
- Great Gatsby (Penguin Longman Reader Level 5) by Fitzgerald F Scott on 7 pages
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- The Great Gatsby (Textplus) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald on 7 pages
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- Lost City: Fitzgerald's New York (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Lauraleigh O'Meara on 38 pages
- The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by Matthew J. Bruccoli on 4 pages
- Great Gatsby and Modern Times by Ronald Berman in Front Matter, page 53, and page 102
- Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century by Scott Bukatman on page 181, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History by Richard Lehan on page 189, page 218, and Back Matter
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