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All The Sad Young Men (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) First Edition

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This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime. This edition is based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, historical notes, a textual apparatus, illustrations, and appendices. The complex history of composition for 'The Rich Boy' is untangled, and Fitzgerald's thorough revision of 'Winter Dreams' is described. Important passages of sexual innuendo and tabloid-style scandal in 'Jacob's Ladder', 'The Love Boat', and 'Magnetism' - removed by editors at the Saturday Evening Post - are restored to the Cambridge texts.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0521402409
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521402408
  3. Edition
    First Edition
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    January 29, 2007
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
  8. Print length
    540 pages
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An edition of twenty Fitzgerald short stories based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts.

About the Author

James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; First Edition (January 29, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 540 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521402409
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521402408
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.66 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'.

    In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.

    Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation" ... he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'

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    James L. W. West III, a native of Virginia, is Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. West is a book historian, scholarly editor, and biographer. He has written books on F. Scott Fitzgerald and on the history of professional authorship in America and has held fellowships from the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. West has had Fulbright appointments in England (at Cambridge University) and in Belgium (at the Université de Liège). He is the general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and is at work on a volume of essays.

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Disappointing print. Faded text, crooked lines of text
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Disappointing print. Faded text, crooked lines of text
This is strictly a review of the hard cover print of the book. See the included photos. The font size is obnoxiously large, but the bigger problem IMO is the print on the paper is really faded on a lot of the pages throughout the book. I'm only 100 pages into it but you can flick through the pages and see that it's a problem with the entire book. I've also found that there are lines of text that aren't even straight on some pages. It's really such a poor quality that the publisher should be embarrassed that they let these leave the warehouse. I had read one review mentioning this issue previous to buying but didn't think it could be that bad, and I was wrong.
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Gnash
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing print. Faded text, crooked lines of text
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This is strictly a review of the hard cover print of the book. See the included photos. The font size is obnoxiously large, but the bigger problem IMO is the print on the paper is really faded on a lot of the pages throughout the book. I'm only 100 pages into it but you can flick through the pages and see that it's a problem with the entire book. I've also found that there are lines of text that aren't even straight on some pages. It's really such a poor quality that the publisher should be embarrassed that they let these leave the warehouse. I had read one review mentioning this issue previous to buying but didn't think it could be that bad, and I was wrong.
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Gnash
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing print. Faded text, crooked lines of text
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2019
This is strictly a review of the hard cover print of the book. See the included photos. The font size is obnoxiously large, but the bigger problem IMO is the print on the paper is really faded on a lot of the pages throughout the book. I'm only 100 pages into it but you can flick through the pages and see that it's a problem with the entire book. I've also found that there are lines of text that aren't even straight on some pages. It's really such a poor quality that the publisher should be embarrassed that they let these leave the warehouse. I had read one review mentioning this issue previous to buying but didn't think it could be that bad, and I was wrong.
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GREAT. It is F. Scott Fitzgerald after all.
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Vasileios S. Gavalas
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2012
In this collection of short stories we can enjoy Fitzgerald at his most exhilarating and at his most brooding moments alike. The theme is similar in most of the stories but never stereotyped. Each of the sad young men has his own story to tell, which is always absorbing. Wealth, parties, courtship, carefree life, blissfulness. And behind all these, disaster is always ambushing. Just to remind us the vanity. To make us contemplate that money, success, love - and even happiness- can be vanished on the spur of the moment...
Moralists would condemn him. Feminists would hate him. Yet, the huge crowd of his followers adored him and the fact that, more than 70 years after his death, his writings gain more and more recognition attests to the greatness of Fitzgerald's work.
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