The Cambridge Centennial Edition
A hardcover for the novel’s hundredth year, with illustrations and the history around it.
A hundred years later the book needs its world back: the pictures, the context and the myths about it, set beside the text.
You want a copy to keep for the novel’s hundredth year, with the world of 1922 laid out around the text.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the established text of the novel, edited by James L. W. West III.
Changes: what surrounds it: an introduction by Sarah Churchwell, social, cultural and historical context, and many illustrations, in a collector’s hardcover.
Whose story is it?
the novel’s and its era’s.
How much time does it ask?
278 pages in hardcover, published January 2025.
Cambridge University Press: “a collector’s volume replete with social, cultural, and historical context, and numerous illustrations.”
Where to find it
Buy the hardcover — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Hardcover — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into West Egg: The Scribner paperback (“The Only Authorized Edition”) · The Penguin Classics edition, introduction by Min Jin Lee · The Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Alworth