Fitzgerald: The Lost Decade
Short Stories from Esquire, 1936–1941

A selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, most of them first published in Esquire magazine between 1934 and 1940.

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

9781107643086, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 March 2014

294 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg

''Cambridge editions of [Fitzgerald's] works contribute to such an intricate access through their wealthy textual apparatus, explanatory notes, and background materials.' Stefan L. Brandt, John F. Kennedy-Institut, Berlin

During the last six years of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald was an Esquire author. Between 1934 and 1940, Fitzgerald sold some forty-five pieces of writing to the magazine - fiction, nonfiction, and personal essays. This volume of the Cambridge Edition includes thirteen short stories published by Fitzgerald in Esquire, together with the entire Pat Hobby Series -seventeen stories about an aging screenwriter scrambling to make a living in Hollywood during the 1930s. One other story - 'Dearly Beloved', submitted to Esquire but not published there - is included as an appendix. The volume provides restored, accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs. A textual apparatus records editorial decisions; explanatory notes identify people, places, literary works, historical events, and references to Hollywood actors, directors, and films. The volume also includes selected facsimiles of Fitzgerald's manuscripts and typescripts for the Esquire writings.

Introduction
Section I. Esquire Stories, 1935–41: Three acts of music
The ants at Princeton
'I didn't get over'
An alcoholic case
The long way out
The guest in room nineteen
In the holidays
Financing Finnegan
Design in plaster
The lost decade
On an ocean wave
The woman from '21'
Three hours between planes
Section II. The Pat Hobby Series, 1940–1: Pat Hobby's Christmas wish
A man in the way
'Boil some water - lots of it'
Teamed with genius
Pat Hobby and Orson Welles
Pat Hobby's secret
Pat Hobby, putative father
The homes of the stars
Pat Hobby does his bit
Pat Hobby's preview
No harm trying
A patriotic short
On the trail of Pat Hobby
Fun in an artist's studio
Two old-timers
Mightier than the sword
Pat Hobby's college days
Record of variants
Explanatory notes
Illustrations
Appendix 1. 'Dearly beloved'
Appendix 2. Publication and earnings.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]