The Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1/2014 · Harper Collins

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Unfinished at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last novel, compiled and published posthumously. A Hollywood heavyweight, Monroe Stahr embarks on a passionate but ill-fated love affair with the beautiful Kathleen Moore while struggling to hold on to his success and fend off his chief rival, Pat Brady.

Published under the working title The Last Tycoon, in the decades following Fitzgerald’s death it has been accepted that he intended the work to be titled The Love of the Last Tycoon; it has been published as such since 1993. Although incomplete, The Last Tycoon has been adapted for television and film based on Fitzgerald’s extensive notes and outlines for the complete work. This edition of The Last Tycoon contains the six chapters that had been completed at the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.