This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set in type and the galleys sent to Fitzgerald in France. Fitzgerald then virtually rewrote the novel in galleys, producing the book we know as The Great Gatsby. This ur-version, Trimalchio, has never been published and is markedly different from The Great Gatsby: two chapters were completely rewritten for the published novel, and the rest of the book was heavily revised. Characterization is different, the narrative voice of Nick Carraway is altered and, most importantly, the revelation of Jay Gatsby's past is handled in a wholly different way.
| ISBN: | 9780521890472 |
| Publication date: | 25th April 2002 |
| Author: | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 216 pages |
| Series: | The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Classics |