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The Crack-Up is a 1945 posthumous collection of essays by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes three essays Fitzgerald originally wrote for Esquire which were first published in 1936, including the title essay, along with previously unpublished letters and notes.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson
- 1945
The Crack-Up, essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published serially in Esquire magazine in 1936 and posthumously, in book form, in The Crack-Up: With Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books, and Unpublished Letters (1945). This confessional essay documents Fitzgerald’s spiritual and physical deterioration.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 7, 2017 · One of America's most famous authors confronts the pressures of fame in a most public forum. Read The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Esquire's archive.
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The Crack-Up Lyrics. Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work -- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside...
The Crack-Up first published as a collection in 1945 This edition first published by Alma Classics in 2018 Edited text and notes © Alma Books Ltd. Extra Material © Richard Parker. Cover design: Will Dady. Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY. isbn: 978-1-84749-718-5.
Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, "The Crack-Up" tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery.
Sep 15, 2018 · The crack-up : with other pieces and stories by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
