Full Description
This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime. This edition is based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, historical notes, a textual apparatus, illustrations, and appendices. The complex history of composition for 'The Rich Boy' is untangled, and Fitzgerald's thorough revision of 'Winter Dreams' is described. Important passages of sexual innuendo and tabloid-style scandal in 'Jacob's Ladder', 'The Love Boat', and 'Magnetism' - removed by editors at the Saturday Evening Post - are restored to the Cambridge texts.
Contents
Introduction; All the Sad Young Men: The Rich Boy; Winter Dreams; The Baby Party; Absolution; Rags; Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les; The Adjuster; Hot and Cold Blood; 'The Sensible Thing'; Gretchen's Forty Winks; Additional Stories, April 1925 - April 1928: One of My Oldest Friends; A Penny Spent; 'Not in the Guidebook'; Presumption; The Adolescent Marriage; The Dance ['In a Little Town']; Your Way and Mine; Jacob's Ladder; The Love Boat; The Bowl; Magnetism; Record of variants; Explanatory notes; Illustrations; Appendix 1. Passages cut from 'The Rich Boy'; Appendix 2. Composition, publication, and earnings.
