Research Catalog

Title

The crack-up : with other miscellaneous pieces, excerpts from note-books and letters by F. Scott Fitzgerald together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop, and Edmund Wilson / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited by Edmund Wilson.

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Publication

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Corral, Rodrigo
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

347 pages; 21 cm.

Series Statement

• New Directions paperbook ; NDP 1135
• NDP1135

Subjects

• Correspondence
• Personal correspondence
• Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Wrappers (Binding)
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 > Correspondence
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc

Genre/Form

• Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
• Personal correspondence.
• Wrappers (Binding)
• Correspondence.

Note

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Rodrigo Corral.

Contents

Echoes of the Jazz Age -- My lost city -- Ring -- "Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to number -- / by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald -- Auction -- model 1934 / by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald -- Sleeping and waking -- The crack-up -- Early success -- The note-books. Anecdotes ; Bright clippings ; Conversation and things overheard ; Descriptions of things and atmosphere ; Epigrams, wisecracks, and jokes ; Feelings and emotions (without girls) ; Descriptions of girls ; Descriptions of humanity (physical) ; Ideas ; Jingles and songs ; Karacters ; Literary ; Moments (what people do) ; Nonsense and stray phrases ; Observations ; Rough stuff ; Scenes and situations ; Titles ; Unclassified ; Vernacular ; Youth and army -- Letters to friends -- Letters to Frances Scott Fitzgerald -- Three letters about "The great Gatsby" / from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton and T.S. Eliot -- A letter from John Dos Passos -- A letter from Thomas Wolfe -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / by Paul Rosenfeld -- The moral of Scott Fitzgerald / by Glenway Wescott -- A note on Fitzgerald / by John Dos Passos -- The hours / by John Peale Bishop.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-865

ISBN

• 9780811218207
• 0811218201

OCLC

318543031

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Title

The crack-up : with other miscellaneous pieces, excerpts from note-books and letters by F. Scott Fitzgerald together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop, and Edmund Wilson / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited by Edmund Wilson.

Publisher

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP 1135

NDP1135

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-865 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Rodrigo Corral. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-865 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972, editor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Corral, Rodrigo, cover designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

LCCN

93001100

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-865