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Cover of Trimalchio: an early version of The great Gatsby

Trimalchio: an early version of The great Gatsby

✍ Scribed by Fitzgerald, Francis Scott

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
163 KB
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
1476762570

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

For the legions of Great Gatsby fans and scholars, F. Scott Fitzgerald's early version of his masterpiece provides a new understanding of Fitzgerald's working methods, fresh insight into his characters, and renewed appreciation of his genius--now available in ebook for the first time.
Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio , an early and complete version of The Great Gatsby , is like listening to a familiar musical composition played in a different key. It is the same work and yet a different work.

Fitzgerald wrote Trimalchio during the summer of 1924 and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, in October of that year. (He titled the book after the ostentatious party-giver in the Satyricon of Petronius.) Perkins had the novel set in type and sent the galleys to Fitzgerald in France. Fitzgerald then heavily revised the galley pages, shifting material around and changing the title. The result was _The Great...

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