I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories

I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories

A collection including the last complete unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic American writer of The Great Gatsby who is more widely read today than ever.

Iâ€™d Die For You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Anne Margaret Daniel. Fitzgerald did not design the stories in Iâ€™d Die For You as a collection. Most were submitted individually to major magazines during the 1930s and accepted for publication during Fitzgeraldâ€™s lifetime, but were never printed. Some were written as movie scenarios and sent to studios or producers, but not filmed. Others are stories that could not be sold because their subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald. They date from the earliest days of Fitzgeraldâ€™s career to the last. They come from various sources, from libraries to private collections, including those of Fitzgeraldâ€™s family.

Readers will experience Fitzgerald writing about controversial topics, depicting young men and women who actually spoke and thought more as young men and women did, without censorship. Rather than permit changes and sanitizing by his contemporary editors, Fitzgerald preferred to let his work remain unpublished, even at a time when he was in great need of money and review attention.

â€œIâ€™d Die For You,â€ the collectionâ€™s title story, is drawn from Fitzgeraldâ€™s stays in the mountains of North Carolina when his health, and that of his wife Zelda, was falling apart. With the addition of a Hollywood star and film crew to the Smoky Mountain lakes and pines, Fitzgerald brings in the cinematic world in which he would soon be living. Most of the stories printed here come from this time period, during the middle and late1930s, though the collection spans Fitzgeraldâ€™s career from 1920 to the end of his life.

The book is subtitled And Other Lost Stories in recognition of an absence until now. Some of the eighteen stories were physically lost, coming to light only in the past few years. All were lost, in one sense or another: lost in the painful shuffle of the difficulties of Fitzgeraldâ€™s life in the middle 1930s; lost to readers because contemporary editors did not understand or accept what he was trying to write; lost because archives are like that, and good things can wait patiently in libraries for many centuries sometimes. Iâ€™d Die For You And Other Lost Stories echoes as well the nostalgia and elegy in Gertrude Steinâ€™s famous phrase â€œa lost generation,â€ that generation for whom Fitzgerald was a leading figure.

Written in his characteristically beautiful, sharp, and surprising language, exploring themes both familiar and fresh, these stories provide new insight into the bold and uncompromising arc of Fitzgeraldâ€™s career. Iâ€™d Die For You is a revealing, intimate look at Fitzgeraldâ€™s creative process that shows him to be a writer working at the fore of modern literatureâ€”in all its developing complexities.
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-04-25
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-04-25
Format	Kindle eBook

I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories

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