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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... appeared together . This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition is the first compre- hensive gathering of his personal essays and , as such , is the nearest thing to an autobiography of him that we can now have.1 1 Scott Donaldson ...
... appeared together . This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition is the first compre- hensive gathering of his personal essays and , as such , is the nearest thing to an autobiography of him that we can now have.1 1 Scott Donaldson ...
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... appeared in Motor , an article called " Girls Believe in Girls " in Liberty , and two articles called " Making Monagomy Work " and " Are Irresponsible Rich ? " published by the Metropolitan Syndicate in the early twenties , and an ...
... appeared in Motor , an article called " Girls Believe in Girls " in Liberty , and two articles called " Making Monagomy Work " and " Are Irresponsible Rich ? " published by the Metropolitan Syndicate in the early twenties , and an ...
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... appeared in the New York Post for 25 September and damaged Fitzgerald's reputation , depicting him as a washed - up alcoholic . Depressed over Mok's arti- cle and by other problems in his life , Fitzgerald made an unsuccessful attempt ...
... appeared in the New York Post for 25 September and damaged Fitzgerald's reputation , depicting him as a washed - up alcoholic . Depressed over Mok's arti- cle and by other problems in his life , Fitzgerald made an unsuccessful attempt ...
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... appeared under the imprint of New Directions . This image is not the one that Fitzgerald wanted to present in 1936 . The essays in Section I of this volume are published in the order that Fitzgerald proposed to Perkins . This is of ...
... appeared under the imprint of New Directions . This image is not the one that Fitzgerald wanted to present in 1936 . The essays in Section I of this volume are published in the order that Fitzgerald proposed to Perkins . This is of ...
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... appeared in a British magazine ; he left no marked tearsheets in his files . For- tunately , prepublication evidence is abundant . Typescripts survive ( sometimes in multiple copies , descended from one another ) for sixteen of the ...
... appeared in a British magazine ; he left no marked tearsheets in his files . For- tunately , prepublication evidence is abundant . Typescripts survive ( sometimes in multiple copies , descended from one another ) for sixteen of the ...
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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