[colinsky]

From the OP:

He said: “The Great Gatsby was last updated in 1924. You don’t need it to be refreshed, do you?

But, actually...

http://books.google.com/books?id=0yf...page&q&f=false

"Fitzgerald did, however, send Perkins corrections and spot-revisions through March and April 1925--six of which were incorporated in the August 1925 second printing of the first edition. Fitzgerald's revised galleys--after house styling and correction by the Scribners editors--became the text of the published novels." (Introduction, xxxv)

"After the second printing, the first attempt to "improve" the text of The Great Gatsby came when the novel was reset for publication with Edmund Wilson's edition of The Last Tycoon (New York: Scribners, 1941). Wilson was responsible for an undetermined number of the 134 alterations..... The plates of this second edition of The Great Gatsby were subsequently emended by Malcon Cowley for Three Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald (New York: Scribners, 1953), making use of Fitzgerald's copy for the first time. No subsequent editions have authority, althought the plates of the "Scribner Library" editions have been altered from time to time. Inevitably, later editions introduced errors: the various resettings have obscured the space breaks by which Fitzgerald signaled shifts in time or narrative." (Introduction, xliii-xliv)