Introduction: Composition of the novel --Composition and ur-text --Holograph text --Deletions and relocations --Additions and revisions --Commentary: Holograph of The Great Gatsby . This critical edition of The Great Gatsby draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, together with Fitzgerald's subsequent revisions to key passages to provide the first authoritative text of one of the classic works of the twentieth century. Here published for the first time is Fitzgerald’s manuscript text of 1924, begun in Great Neck, Long Island, and completed on the French Riviera, months before he would revise his text still further in the Trimalchio galleys. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. The second part of the exhibit, labeled “The Great Gatsby,” is the handwritten manuscript that Fitzgerald wrote in pencil, since he did not type. Like Like. By April 1924, now living in Great Neck, New York, Fitzgerald began working on the novel again, but now set in 1922. Great Gatsby. 072. $140.50. The Great Gatsby : The Manuscript Text by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2018, Hardcover) Be the first to write a review About this product. The Great Gatsby was published for $2.00 on April 10th, 1925 in a print run of 20,860. Product Identifiers. Product Information. Drawing on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald’s later revisions and corrections, this is the authorized text—The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it.--back cover Read more. Our method transcribes 25 pages of a manuscript of Terence with fair accuracy (75% of letters correctly transcribed). 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