Publishing History
While teaching at Penn State, Barth had embarked on a cycle of 100 stories he called Dorchester Tales; he abandoned it halfway through to begin his first two published novels. He completed both The Floating Opera and The End of the Road in 1955. Appleton, Century Crofts published The Floating Opera in 1956, but sales were not strong enough to encourage the publisher to pick up Barth's next offering, which the publisher felt to be too similar to the first book. The End of the Road was published by Doubleday in 1958, though it received only marginally more attention than The Floating Opera. A revised edition appeared in 1967, with material originally intended to be in the book restored, and a new introduction by Barth.
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