The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby

Real author – deceased James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor. From 1994 to 2019, he was General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, recently completed in eighteen volumes (sixteen under his editorship). Professor West's variorum edition of The Great Gatsby was the final volume in the series. Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby (2013), The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (2022), Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream (2018), and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (2004).

• Chronology; Introduction Sarah Churchwell; THE GREAT GATSBY; History of the Text; Selected Editions of the Novel; Annotations and Identifications; Three Cruxes; Alternate Passages from the Manuscript and Galley Proofs.

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