F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1940

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last, incomplete novel is now available in two slightly different versions. The first version,

The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel

, edited by the influential American critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), was published on 27 October 1941 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, ten months after Fitzgerald’s death at the age of 44 on 21 December 1940. The second version,

The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western

, edited by the leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli (born 1931), appeared in 1993 in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wilson’s edition was not at first published as a stand-alone text but in a volume which also contained a synopsis of the rest of

The Last Tycoon

, a selection from Fitzgerald’s working papers for his…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Last Tycoon". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 February 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=413, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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