The Annotated Great GatsbyThe Annotated Great Gatsby

"Fitzgerald's acknowledged masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, is published in a richly illustrated, 4-color hardcover edition with illuminating running commentary Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West III. Over seventy illustrations and photographs throughout the volume vividly recreate the Jazz Age world of Fitzgerald's most famous novel and chronicle the novel's rich cultural afterlife, encouraging readers to linger in the margins of this deluxe annotated edition. West also brings into his marginal commentary the views of other scholars and writers, sampling the best of what has been said about Fitzgerald's novel. It includes 13 letters between Fitzgerald and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, that offer a fascinating picture of the working relationship between author and editor and of the composition and publication of The Great Gatsby"--