Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West III

• ISBN13: 9780521883665
• ISBN10: 0521883660
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), was a pivotal book in his career. A trenchant satire of the Jazz Age, it is very much a novel of its times. This edition is based on the surviving manuscript, the serialized version from Metropolitan magazine, the Scribners 1922 first American edition, and the Collins 1922 first British edition. The volume includes a detailed account of the composition of the novel, a textual apparatus, a chronology of composition, and, uniquely, three versions of the ending. Explanatory notes identify Fitzgeralds topical and historical references to books and authors, Broadway shows and Manhattan cabarets, movie stars and sports heroes, statesmen and criminals, business tycoons and historical figures. These notes situate The Beautiful and Damned in its times and deepen the readers understanding of Fitzgeralds sources for the novel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. ix
Chronology of composition	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Composition	p. xiii
Serialization	p. xvii
Proofing and revision	p. xix
The ending	p. xxi
Publication and reception	p. xxii
The British edition	p. xxiv
Editorial principles	p. xxv
The Beautiful and Damned	p. 1
Record of variants	p. 371
Explanatory notes	p. 377
Illustrations	p. 413
"The Far-seeing Skeptics"	p. 421
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