Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940Twice 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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... Expenditure " list for 1923 . 2. Page 4 , revised typescript of " A Short Autobiography " ( 1929 ) . 3. Fitzgerald to Perkins , 25 March 1936 . 4. Vernon and Irene Castle . INTRODUCTION " I have cleaner hands in the case of xi ...
... Expenditure " list for 1923 . 2. Page 4 , revised typescript of " A Short Autobiography " ( 1929 ) . 3. Fitzgerald to Perkins , 25 March 1936 . 4. Vernon and Irene Castle . INTRODUCTION " I have cleaner hands in the case of xi ...
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... March 1935 . 3 Fitzgerald to Perkins , 15 May 1934 , in Dear Scott / Dear Max : The Fitzgerald- Perkins Correspondence , ed . John Kuehl and Jackson R. Bryer ( New York : Scribners , 1971 ) : 197–98 . Quotations from other letters ...
... March 1935 . 3 Fitzgerald to Perkins , 15 May 1934 , in Dear Scott / Dear Max : The Fitzgerald- Perkins Correspondence , ed . John Kuehl and Jackson R. Bryer ( New York : Scribners , 1971 ) : 197–98 . Quotations from other letters ...
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... March , and April 1936 he published a trio of self - revelatory essays in Esquire : " The Crack - Up , " " Pasting It Together , " and " Handle with Care . " These confessional articles caused a sensation , bring- ing Fitzgerald much ...
... March , and April 1936 he published a trio of self - revelatory essays in Esquire : " The Crack - Up , " " Pasting It Together , " and " Handle with Care . " These confessional articles caused a sensation , bring- ing Fitzgerald much ...
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... March 1933 ) ; " Ring , " New Republic , 76 ( 11 October 1933 ) ; 8 For an elaboration of the editorial principles employed in this volume , see pp . xl - xlii of the Cambridge edition of This Side of Paradise ( 1995 ) . 9 Surviving ...
... March 1933 ) ; " Ring , " New Republic , 76 ( 11 October 1933 ) ; 8 For an elaboration of the editorial principles employed in this volume , see pp . xl - xlii of the Cambridge edition of This Side of Paradise ( 1995 ) . 9 Surviving ...
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... ( March 1936 ) ; " Handle with Care , " Esquire , 5 ( April 1936 ) ; " Auction - Model 1934 , " Esquire , 2 ( July 1934 ) ; " Sleeping and Waking , " Esquire , 2 ( December 1934 ) ; " Author's House , " Esquire , 6 ( July 1936 ) ...
... ( March 1936 ) ; " Handle with Care , " Esquire , 5 ( April 1936 ) ; " Auction - Model 1934 , " Esquire , 2 ( July 1934 ) ; " Sleeping and Waking , " Esquire , 2 ( December 1934 ) ; " Author's House , " Esquire , 6 ( July 1936 ) ...
Contents
Whos Who and Why 1920 | 1 |
Princeton 1927 | 4 |
What I Think and Feel at 25 1924 | 14 |
How to Live on 36000 a Year 1924 | 25 |
How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year 1924 | 38 |
Imagination and a Few Mothers 1923 | 56 |
Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own 1924 | 64 |
How to Waste Material 1926 | 75 |
Pasting It Together 1936 | 143 |
Handle with Care 1936 | 148 |
Auction Model 1934 1934 | 155 |
Sleeping and Waking 1934 | 161 |
Authors House 1936 | 166 |
Afternoon of an Author 1936 | 173 |
An Authors Mother 1936 | 179 |
Early Success 1937 | 183 |
One Hundred False Starts 1933 | 80 |
Ring 1933 | 89 |
A Short Autobiography 1929 | 95 |
Girls Believe in Girls 1930 | 98 |
My Lost City 19351940 | 104 |
Show Mr and Mrs F to Number 1934 | 114 |
Echoes of the Jazz Age 1931 | 128 |
The CrackUp 1936 | 137 |
My Generation 1939 | 190 |
Record of variants | 197 |
Explanatory notes | 219 |
Illustrations | 293 |
Show Mr and Mrs F to Number | 299 |
Publication and earnings | 337 |
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