Publication

2008 - Penguin Books, Limited

Language

English

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Word Count

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Page Count

0 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780141189505
  • ISBN-100141189509
  • Better World Books9780141189505
  • Open LibraryOL40367076M

Classifications

  • LCCPS3511.I9

Description

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. --first edition jacket ---------- Also contained in: - [The Fitzgerald Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468551W/The_Fitzgerald_Reader) - [Three Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468557W)

Excerpt

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Subjects

Topics

LoveRichNovelDramaWivesWealthNovela

Places

Mei guoAmericaEast EggWest EggNew YorkLong IslandUnited States

People

Jay GatsbyTom BuchananNick CarrawayDaisy BuchananF. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Times

1922Xian daiModern times

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