The Great Gatsby

"Canadian readers are indeed fortunate to have Michael Nowlin's extremely useful edition of The Great Gatsby. Nowlin provides a wealth of ancillary materials that enhance our understanding and appreciation of Fitzgerald's masterpiece: a selection of Fitzgerald's correspondence about Gatsby; eight advertisements that graphically demonstrate the commodity culture underlying the novel; and, perhaps most worthwhile of all, a selection of contemporary essays that supply an invaluable contextual framework for Gatsby. Throughout, Nowlin's emphasis is on the quality, not quantity of these materials; the result is a book that will be indispensable to students, teachers, and the casual reader alike." - Jackson R. Bryer, University of Maryland"This edition of The Great Gatsby confirms what Fitzgerald Society members have long believed: Michael Nowlin is a leader in the emerging generation of Fitzgerald scholars. His introduction here charts the intensely personal journey through love, loss, and ambition that Fitzgerald traveled in order to realize his masterpiece; Nowlin's appendices, meanwhile, provide secondary sources for appreciating the chaotic energies of youth, race, and cultural change compelling the novel's inexorable tragedy. Whether excerpting Fitzgerald's mid-1920s correspondence, contemporary reviews, or nonfiction gems of the day-including Zelda Fitzgerald's insightful 'What Became of the Flappers?' (1925)-Nowlin dramatizes how thoroughly Jay Gatsby's creator intuited the sadness and uncertainty beneath the glitz and gild of modernity's most golden of decades." - Kirk Curnutt, Troy University, Vice-President of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society

Michael Nowlin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness (2007) and editor of the Broadview edition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (2002).

Acknowledgements Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Great Gatsby Appendix A: Fitzgerald's Correspondence about The Great Gatsby (1922-25) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews Appendix C: Consumption, Class, and Selfhood: Eight Contemporary Advertisements Appendix D: The Irreverent Spirit of the Jazz Age Appendix E: Race and the National Culture, 1920-25 Select Bibliography