The winding road to West Egg
Subtitle: the artistic development of F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: Robert Roulston and Helen H. Roulston.
Contributors: Roulston, Helen, 1939-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: F. Scott Fitzgerald's early short stories, even more than his first two novels - This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned - reveal both a growing mastery of his craft and an evolution of the themes and techniques that distinguish The Great Gatsby and his major later works. Indeed, features of Gatsby that Fitzgerald supposedly absorbed from Joseph Conrad, Willa Cather, William Makepeace Thackeray, Oswald Spengler, and T. S.

Eliot sometimes appear in stories Fitzgerald wrote before reading such putative sources. Scholars Robert and Helen H. Roulston examine Fitzgerald's fiction up to the completion of The Great Gatsby and briefly survey his later career in The Winding Road to West Egg.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201) and index.