num_pages: 208
description: At the time of his death in 1940, F Scott Fitzgerald was working on a novel that has since been hailed as 'his most mature piece of work': praise indeed for an unfinished novel by the author of such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. When published in 1941 under the title The Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald's final work was edited to appeal to the general reader, disguising the true state of the author's progress. Now, following exhaustive research into original manuscript drafts and notes, Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J Bruccoli has assembled the definitive version of the book, reflecting more faithfully what the author himself intended. Includes Selected Chronology, extensive Editorial Notes, Introduction, and Selected Working Notes of Fitzgerald.
language: English
title: The Last Tycoon
titlecomplete: The Last Tycoon
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 12268
publisher: Abacus