{"product_id":"fitzgerald-my-lost-city-personal-essays-1920-1940-hardback-9780521402392","title":"Fitzgerald: My Lost City; Personal Essays, 1920–1940 (Hardback) 9780521402392","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFitzgerald: My Lost City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePersonal Essays, 1920–1940\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume reconstructs F. Scott Fitzgerald's planned volume of personal essays.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald (Author), James L. W. West, III (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521402392, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 September 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e366 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.565 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The result is a wealth of context for these very contemporary essays …' Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTwice 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Fitzgerald's Selections, 1936: 1. Who's Who - and Why (1920)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Princeton (1927)\u003cbr\u003e 3. What I Think and Feel at 25 (1922)\u003cbr\u003e 4. How to Live on $36,000 a Year (1924)\u003cbr\u003e 5. How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year (1924)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Imagination - and a Few Mothers (1923)\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!' (1924)\u003cbr\u003e 8. How to Waste Material (1926)\u003cbr\u003e 9. One Hundred False Starts (1933)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Ring (1933)\u003cbr\u003e 11. A Short Autobiography (1929)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Girls Believe in Girls (1930)\u003cbr\u003e 13. My Lost City (1935\/1940)\u003cbr\u003e 14. 'Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number' (1934)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Echoes of the Jazz Age (1931)\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Crack-Up (1936)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Pasting It Together (1936)\u003cbr\u003e 18. Handle with Care (1936)\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Additional Essays, 1936–1940: 19. Auction - Model 1934 (1934)\u003cbr\u003e 20. Sleeping and Waking (1934)\u003cbr\u003e 21. Author's House (1936)\u003cbr\u003e 22. Afternoon of an Author (1936)\u003cbr\u003e 23. An Author's Mother (1936)\u003cbr\u003e 24. Early Success (1937)\u003cbr\u003e 25. My Generation (1939)\u003cbr\u003e Record of Variants\u003cbr\u003e Explanatory notes\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. 'Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number -'\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Publication and Earnings.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Prose: non-fiction [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Prose: non-fiction\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Prose:%20non-fiction%20%5BDN%5D%22\"\u003eDN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005532590360,"sku":"9780521402392","price":85.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521402392i_192de4f1-ab50-4093-b62b-abb4a166ea05.jpg?v=1691381158","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fitzgerald-my-lost-city-personal-essays-1920-1940-hardback-9780521402392","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}