Paperback
The real Gatsby: Restoring Fitzgerald’s lost rhythms and authentic masterpiece.

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  • Paperback

    282 pages

  • Release Date

    15 December 2022

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Summary

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of the most popular and widely read novels in the English language. Until now, however, no edition has printed the novel exactly as Fitzgerald himself wrote it. From its first edition onward, the text has been subject to rigorous house-styling that has distorted the characteristic rhythms and structure of his sentences. This critical edition dr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781009266895
ISBN-10:1009266896
Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:282
Release Date:15 December 2022
Weight:395g
Dimensions:16mm x 140mm x 216mm
Series:The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
A-Format
B-Format
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - ISBN: 9781009266895
140 × 216 mm
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A4
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Critics Review

“Although it is hard to believe this novel could improve, it has. Considering the book’s significance to American letters, the Cambridge edition of The Great Gatsby could very well be the literary publishing event of the year.” Library Journal
“Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and waking.” James Dickey

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