The lost decade : short stories from Esquire, 1936-1941

Author(s)

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
• West, James L. W.

Bibliographic Information

The lost decade : short stories from Esquire, 1936-1941

F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited by James L.W. West III

（The Cambridge edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald）

Cambridge University Press, 2008

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• Three acts of music (May 1936)
• The ants at Princeton (June 1936)
• "I didn't get over" (October 1936)
• An alcoholic case (February 1937)
• The long way out (September 1937)
• The guest in room nineteen (October 1937)
• In the holidays (December 1937)
• Financing Finnegan (January 1938)
• Design in plaster (November 1939)
• The lost decade (December 1939)
• On an ocean wave (February 1941)
• The woman from "21" (June 1941)
• Three hours between planes (July 1941)
• Pat Hobby's Christmas wish (January 1940)
• A man in the way (February 1940)
• "Boil some water, lots of it" (March 1940)
• Teamed with genius (April 1940)
• Pat Hobby and Orson Welles (May 1940)
• Pat Hobby's secret (June 1940)
• Pat Hobby, putative father (July 1940)
• The homes of the stars (August 1940)
• Pat Hobby does his bit (September 1940)
• Pat Hobby's preview (October 1940)
• No harm trying (November 1940)
• A patriotic short (December 1940)
• On the trail of Pat Hobby (January 1941)
• Fun in an artist's studio (February 1941)
• Two old-timers (March 1941)
• Mightier than the sword (April 1941)
• Pat Hobby's college days (May 1941)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

During the last six years of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald was an Esquire author. Between 1934 and 1940, Fitzgerald sold some forty-five pieces of writing to the magazine - fiction, nonfiction, and personal essays. This volume of the Cambridge Edition includes thirteen short stories published by Fitzgerald in Esquire, together with the entire Pat Hobby Series -seventeen stories about an aging screenwriter scrambling to make a living in Hollywood during the 1930s. One other story - 'Dearly Beloved', submitted to Esquire but not published there - is included as an appendix. The volume provides restored, accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs. A textual apparatus records editorial decisions; explanatory notes identify people, places, literary works, historical events, and references to Hollywood actors, directors, and films. The volume also includes selected facsimiles of Fitzgerald's manuscripts and typescripts for the Esquire writings.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Section I. Esquire Stories, 1935-41: Three acts of music
• The ants at Princeton
• 'I didn't get over'
• An alcoholic case
• The long way out
• The guest in room nineteen
• In the holidays
• Financing Finnegan
• Design in plaster
• The lost decade
• On an ocean wave
• The woman from '21'
• Three hours between planes
• Section II. The Pat Hobby Series, 1940-1: Pat Hobby's Christmas wish
• A man in the way
• 'Boil some water - lots of it'
• Teamed with genius
• Pat Hobby and Orson Welles
• Pat Hobby's secret
• Pat Hobby, putative father
• The homes of the stars
• Pat Hobby does his bit
• Pat Hobby's preview
• No harm trying
• A patriotic short
• On the trail of Pat Hobby
• Fun in an artist's studio
• Two old-timers
• Mightier than the sword
• Pat Hobby's college days
• Record of variants
• Explanatory notes
• Illustrations
• Appendix 1. 'Dearly beloved'
• Appendix 2. Publication and earnings.

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Details

• NCID: BA86464268
• ISBN:
  • 9780521885300
• LCCN: 2007053045
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxxii, 260 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3511.I9
  • DC22 : 813/.52
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13142930