Modern Library, Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author Modern Library $15.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-60043-5
People are seldom what they seem in this provocative collection of seven novellas from a writer who has been publishing in the New Yorker since the 1940s and whose Collected Stories was nominated for a National Book Award in 1975. In the one...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author , read by Alexander Scourby. Audio Editions $17.95 (, unabridged, two cassettes, 2 hrs., $17.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-57270-259-2
One of the most acclaimed audio narrators of all time, the late Scourby recorded more than 500 books for the blind for the Library of Congress and inspired the American Foundation of the Blind's annual Alexander Scourby Award for excellence in...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author Scribner Book Company $10 (285p) ISBN 978-0-684-80072-1
Fitzgerald's first novel, about a coterie of Princeton socialites, appears in a 75th anniversary edition. (Mar.)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Robertson Dean, Read by , read by Robertson Dean. Tantor Media $19.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-1424-5
Robertson Dean's rich, deep voice sweeps us into this classic with the same straightforward narrative elegance Fitzgerald gives his narrator, Nick Carraway. Dean manages to be moving without dramatic exaggeration, and to distinguish characters,
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Trevor White, Naxos AudioBooks, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-962-634-457-6
You can generally count on Naxos to produce superb audios of classics—but not this time. Trevor White gives a dull performance, though he handles conversation and dialogue better than straight narration and is not bad at accents. His emphases are...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Scott Brick, Read by, Grover Gardner, Read by , read by Scott Brick, Grover Gardner and others. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-6045-7
Each story in this collection is narrated reverently and carefully. In “The Bridal Party,” Grover Gardner distinguishes nicely between the affluent bridegroom who is about to feel the repercussions of the 1929 stock market crash and the...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Kevin Cornell, Illustrator, Nunzio DeFillippis, Adapted by . Quirk $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59474-281-1
The impending release of a movie version starring Brad Pitt has made this humorous tale, formerly among the least known of Fitzgerald's short stories, a hot property. DeFillippis and Weir's adaptation preserves the original's straight-
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editor Cambridge University Press $89 (448p) ISBN 978-0-521-40231-6
Literary detective Bruccoli has produced a remarkable feat of scholarship in this welcome critical edition of the novel Fitzgerald began during his final year (1940) while working in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Generally considered a roman a clef,...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editor Scribner Book Company $29.95 (775p) ISBN 978-0-684-19160-7
Bruccoli's ( Some Sort of Epic Grandeur ) collection of 43 Fitzgerald stories includes 23 not featured in Malcolm Cowley's landmark 1951 collection, expanding the canon of a peerless American writer who was deeply ambivalent about the role of short...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Judith S. Baughman, Editor, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editor Scribner Book Company $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-684-19570-4
Organized chronologically, this correspondence--edited by eminent Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli and freelance writer, Baughman--offers an accessible self-portrait of the writer (1896-1940). Early letters to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, and friends,...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, E. L. Doctorow, Introduction by New Directions Publishing Corporation $8 (83p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1333-2
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth, these essays present a middle-aged Fitzgerald looking back on the era he came to epitomize. (Sept.)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Tim Robbins, Read by , read by Tim Robbins. Caedmon Audio $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-009890-2
Audio reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FictionTHE GREAT GATSBYF. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Tim Robbins. Caedmon Audio, unabridged, six cassettes, 7 hrs.,
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Jackson R. Bryer, Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Jackson R. Bryer, Editor , intro. by Eleanor Lanahan. St. Martin's $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-26875-6
"Once we were one person," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his wife in the last years of their marriage, "and always it will be a little that way." While this carefully annotated collection (edited by two scholars at the University of...
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