F. Scott Fitzgerald-The Works, The Life
October 11, 1940
Dearest Zelda,
...I expect to be back on my novel any day and this time to finish, a two months' job. The months go so fast that even "Tender Is the Night" is six years' away. I think the nine years that intervened between "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender" hurt my reputation almost beyond repair because a whole generation grew up in the meanwhile to whom I was only a writer of Post stories. I don't suppose anyone will be much interested in what I have to say this time and it may be ...more
Dearest Zelda,
...I expect to be back on my novel any day and this time to finish, a two months' job. The months go so fast that even "Tender Is the Night" is six years' away. I think the nine years that intervened between "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender" hurt my reputation almost beyond repair because a whole generation grew up in the meanwhile to whom I was only a writer of Post stories. I don't suppose anyone will be much interested in what I have to say this time and it may be ...more
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