Taps at Reveille

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Overview

„Taps at Reveille” (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1935 and dedicated to Fitzgerald’s agent Harold Ober. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including „Crazy Sunday”, and „Babylon Revisited”, a story considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788382924602
Publisher:	Ktoczyta.pl
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	393
Sales rank:	915,752
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	6 Years

About the Author

James L. W. West, III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent book is Making the Archives Talk (2011), a collection of essays.

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Background; 2. Publication and reception; 3. Post-publication corrections; 4. Editorial principles; 5. Restorations; Taps at Reveille: Crazy Sunday; Two Wrongs; The Night of Chancellorsville; The Last of the Belles; Majesty; Family in the Wind; A Short Trip Home; One Interne; The Fiend; Babylon Revisited; Additional Stories, December 1928–July 1931: Outside the Cabinet-Maker's; The Rough Crossing; At Your Age; The Swimmers; The Bridal Party; One Trip Abroad; The Hotel Child; Indecision; A New Leaf; Record of variants; Explanatory notes; Illustrations; Appendix 1. 'Thank You for the Light'; Appendix 2. 'Author's foreword'; Appendix 3. Composition, publication, and earnings.

Editorial Reviews

"If you want to see what Fitzgerald really intended his writing to say, get the new edition of Taps At Reveille. For West's work we should all - including Scott Fitzgerald - be very grateful."
Anne Margaret Daniel, Huffington Post

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