The text of Trimalchio presented here leaves undisturbed a few factual irregularities that are present in the galleys. The only corrections made are for incongruities that Fitzgerald himself recognized and mended in his set of proofs. Other possible factual corrections are left unemended but are noted in a separate table in the apparatus.
It is worth noting that most of the factual and chronological errors in the first edition of The Great Gatsby entered the text when Fitzgerald revised the galleys; thus they are not present in Trimalchio. The single sentence in Trimalchio requiring significant editorial emendation occurs in the fourth paragraph of the novel: "It was only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, that was exempted from my reaction." Since this edition is entitled Trimalchio, the sentence has been emended to read:"It was only Gatsby who was exempted from my reaction."
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Chronology of composition and publication
- Introduction
- Trimal Chio
- Record of variants
- Explanatory notes
- Illustrations