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The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer. [1] According to Publishers Weekly, the novel is "generally considered a roman à clef ", with its lead character, Monroe Stahr, modeled after film producer Irving ...
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 163 (paperback edition)
- 1941
- November 4, 1941 (posthumously)
The Last Tycoon, unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published posthumously in 1941. As edited by the literary critic Edmund Wilson, it contained six completed chapters, an abridged conclusion, and some of Fitzgerald’s notes. The work is an indictment of Hollywood, where Fitzgerald had had a disappointing career as a screenwriter.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This was F. Scott Fitzgerald's final book. He never finished it. On December 21, 1940, the day after he wrote chapter 6, Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack. For an unfinished novel The Last Tycoon is a powerful work. I feels like a second draft rather than the first draft that it apparently is. Heavens, the man could write!
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Nov 19, 1976 · The Last Tycoon: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
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When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, he left behind an unfinished draft of this poignant novel, inspired by his own experience working in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Literary critic Edmund Wilson edited Fitzgerald’s notes and material to publish this text of The Last Tycoon in 1941. Now, this edition restores Wilson’s editorial work and ...
- Paperback
- November 21, 2023
- Reissue
Jun 2, 2017 · Not for Monroe Stahr and Pat Brady, the warring producers at the center of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1933 novel, “The Last Tycoon,” now a major motion picture series from the folks over at ...
Summary. These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call'. A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last ...
