Taps at Reveille

Offers restored, re-edited, and uncensored texts of several of Fitzgerald's most famous stories, including 'Babylon Revisited' and 'Crazy Sunday'.

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

9781107470378, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2014

424 pages, 5 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.6 kg

'If you want to see what Fitzgerald really intended his writing to say, get the new edition of Taps At Reveille. For West's work we should all – including Scott Fitzgerald – be very grateful.' Anne Margaret Daniel, Huffington Post

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille is one of the author's strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including 'Crazy Sunday', and 'Babylon Revisited', a story considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre. Fitzgerald assembled the collection in a time of debt and personal difficulty, working with texts that had, in many cases, been censored by the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. Using evidence from the drafts that bear Fitzgerald's final revisions, this edition presents for the first time restored texts of the stories, with censored material reinstated and sexual innuendo as Fitzgerald originally intended. This volume offers as well an extended historical introduction, explanatory notes, textual apparatus, and, in an appendix, 'Thank You for the Light', a vignette recently discovered among Fitzgerald's literary remains and published for the first time in 2012.

Introduction
1. Background
2. Publication and reception
3. Post-publication corrections
4. Editorial principles
5. Restorations
Taps at Reveille: Crazy Sunday
Two Wrongs
The Night of Chancellorsville
The Last of the Belles
Majesty
Family in the Wind
A Short Trip Home
One Interne
The Fiend
Babylon Revisited
Additional Stories, December 1928–July 1931: Outside the Cabinet-Maker's
The Rough Crossing
At Your Age
The Swimmers
The Bridal Party
One Trip Abroad
The Hotel Child
Indecision
A New Leaf
Record of variants
Explanatory notes
Illustrations
Appendix 1. 'Thank You for the Light'
Appendix 2. 'Author's foreword'
Appendix 3. Composition, publication, and earnings.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]