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The Great Gatsby

A Norton Critical Edition
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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The Great Gatsby presents the glamour and disillusionment of the American Jazz Age through the story of Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man, and his obsession with the elusive Daisy Buchanan. Set in 1920s New York, the novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, and social upheaval, revealing the darker side of the American Dream.
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This Norton Critical Edition is ideal for students and scholars of American literature and modernist studies, providing comprehensive contextual materials and critical insights to deepen understanding and analysis.

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“This superb volume offers a rich cultural fabric that greatly deepens our understanding of The Great Gatsby. Illuminating short stories by Fitzgerald, his correspondence, and his literary inspirations are all featured here. An indispensable edition.”—Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University

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This Norton Critical Edition includes:

  • The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.
  • A full introduction, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.
  • An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including Fitzgerald's sources for his greatest novel, excerpts from his ledger and notebooks, three of his related short stories, twenty-two carefully chosen letters concerning The Great Gatsby, and eight selections—four of them by Fitzgerald—on the Jazz Age and American Modernism.
  • A wide range of critical assessments, covering initial reviews and reactions, Fitzgerald's revival, and reconsiderations and recent readings.
  • A chronology and selected bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393656596

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 September 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by David Alworth

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 482g

Pages: 584

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Education & Reference F. Scott Fitzgerald Most Popular Books of All Time Non-Fiction Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the United States Army during World War I. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), was a national bestseller; Fitzgerald followed it with three more complete novels and hundreds of popular short stories. The Great Gatsby (1925), a timeless story of social class, race, and gender in America, remains his best-known work. Fitzgerald was living in Los Angeles, working on movie screenplays and a novel he called The Love of the Last Tycoon, when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1941, at the age of 44. David J. Alworth is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, where he teaches in the Department of English, the Program in History and Literature, and the Program in American Studies. He also codirects Novel Theory Across the Disciplines, a seminar at Mahindra Humanities Center. He has published Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form (2016) and The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature, with designer Peter Mendelsund (2020). Alworth’s essays and articles have appeared in American Literary History, New Literary History, ELH, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books.

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