A Change of Class

Brings together twenty Fitzgerald short stories published between 1931 and 1937 concerning the Great Depression, social striving, class divisions, and professionalism.

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

9781009279666, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2022

476 pages, 6 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.658 kg

The twenty short stories in A Change of Class were published by F. Scott Fitzgerald between September 1931 and March 1937. Fitzgerald wrote these stories for money, which he badly needed. His wife was being treated at expensive sanitariums and he was heavily in debt to his publisher and literary agent. The stories in A Change of Class are not all among Fitzgerald's best, but they are important in his career. They concern the Great Depression, social striving, class divisions, and professionalism. Several are set in the world of medicine and depict the lives of doctors, nurses, and their patients. The writing is strong, with vivid descriptions and sharp dialogue. A Change of Class provides freshly edited texts, based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts. Important readings, edited out or censored by magazine publishers, have been restored. The volume includes facsimiles, historical annotations, and a full record of emendation.

Introduction
1. Background
2. Editorial principles
3. Restorations
4. Regularizations
Between Three and Four
A Change of Class
A Freeze-Out
Six of One–
Diagnosis
Flight and Pursuit
The Rubber Check
What a Handsome Pair!
On Schedule
More than Just a House
I Got Shoes
The Family Bus
No Flowers
New Types
Her Last Case
The Intimate Strangers
Zone of Accident
Fate in her Hands
Image on the Heart
'Trouble'
Record of Variants
Explanatory Notes
Illustrations
Appendix. Composition, publication, and earnings.

Subject Areas: Short stories [FYB], Classic fiction [pre c 1945 FC], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]