The last of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's unpublished works will finally see the light of day in 2017, 80 years after they were written.
A collection of short stories written by The Great Gatsby scribe between the mid-to-late 1930s will be released by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, next April, the publisher said Wednesday.
The book, I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories, includes works Fitzgerald failed to sell because the subject matter "departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald in the 1930s," as well as shorts Fitzgerald wrote for major magazines that ultimately went unpublished.
The collection's lead story, I'd Die for You, "is drawn from Fitzgerald's stays in the mountains of North Carolina when his health, and that of his wife Zelda, was falling apart," Scribner said.
Scribner said the stories tackled controversial topics and Fitzgerald opted for them to go unpublished rather than "permit changes and sanitizing by his contemporary editors."
Fitzgerald, who died in 1940 at the age of 44, shortly after writing these stories, published four full-length novels in his lifetime, including Gatsby in 1925. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was released posthumously in 1941. Amazon recently adapted Tycoon into a television series starring Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer.
I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories is released on April 11, 2017.
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