Tender is the Night (2000)
Tender is the Night
“In 1951 a revised version was published, edited by Malcolm Cowley from a copy of the novel which Fitzgerald had reorganized and in which he had made corrections. Penguin Books began reprinting this revised version in 1955.
Scholarly opinion, both textual and critical, has come, however, to regard the Cowley version with disfavour. Fitzgerald had clearly not completed his revision project and he may have abandoned it as not worth carrying out. His basic idea was to reconstruct the novel into chr...onological order, placing the ‘flashback’ chapters (Book II, I to X) at the begining of the book. Fitzgerald’s workng copy contains a few alterations which he thought required by the ‘new’ order and some others, but Cowley made hundreds more (of both kinds), and there is no way in which a reader of the revised version can tell without research whether Fitzgerald actually wrote what he is reading.
This new Penguin Books text returns to the first edition, and is the first UK paperback to be based upon it.MoreLess
Scholarly opinion, both textual and critical, has come, however, to regard the Cowley version with disfavour. Fitzgerald had clearly not completed his revision project and he may have abandoned it as not worth carrying out. His basic idea was to reconstruct the novel into chr...onological order, placing the ‘flashback’ chapters (Book II, I to X) at the begining of the book. Fitzgerald’s workng copy contains a few alterations which he thought required by the ‘new’ order and some others, but Cowley made hundreds more (of both kinds), and there is no way in which a reader of the revised version can tell without research whether Fitzgerald actually wrote what he is reading.
This new Penguin Books text returns to the first edition, and is the first UK paperback to be based upon it.MoreLess
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