The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Cambridge University Press, 9/3/2009
EAN 9780521769730, ISBN10: 0521769736
Hardcover, 397 pages, 22.2 x 14.6 x 2.6 cm
Language: English
This volume brings together three series of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Basil Duke Lee stories of 1928–29, the Josephine Perry stories of 1930–31, and the Gwen Bowers stories of 1936. The texts published here are based on surviving typescripts that preserve Fitzgerald's final revisions for their first publication in the Saturday Evening Post. Collations have revealed cuts and revisions by the Post editors aimed at removing profanity and blasphemy, sexual innuendo, real names of people and places, and references to racial prejudice. These passages have been restored to the Cambridge texts. This volume includes a scholarly introduction, a record of variants, facsimiles and other illustrations, and an appendix that presents early endings for the stories 'The Captured Shadow' and 'Basil and Cleopatra'. Full historical notes identify popular songs, sports heroes, literary works, Broadway shows, and sources for the stories.
Introduction
The Basil Stories
That kind of party
The scandal detectives
A night at the fair
The freshest boy
He thinks he's wonderful
The captured shadow
The perfect life
Forging ahead
Basil and Cleopatra
The Josephine Stories
First blood
A nice quiet place
A woman with a past
A snobbish story
Emotional bankruptcy
The Gwen Stories
Too cute for words
Inside the house
Record of variants
Explanatory notes
Illustrations
Appendix 1
Original endings, 'The Captured Shadow' and 'Basil and Cleopatra'
Appendix 2
Publication and earnings.