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The Great Gatsby
(Paperback, 1993)
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, young Nick Carraway, fresh from the Midwest, comes t...
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Synopsis
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, young Nick Carraway, fresh from the Midwest, comes to 1922 New York where, at a Long Island party, he becomes involved in the lives of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a glamorous but unhappy couple. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, young Nick Carraway, fresh from the Midwest, comes to 1922 New York where, at a Long Island party, he becomes involved in the lives of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a glamorous but unhappy couple. Through them, he meets Jay Gatsby, their fabulously wealthy neighbor, who has a mysterious past and is renowned for his extravagant drunken parties. Gatsby has long been in love with Daisy, who rejected him when he was young and poor--and whom he wants to win back, now that he has more to offer. During a drive back to Long Island from a party in the city, Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hits and kills a woman names Myrtle Wilson, who is Tom's mistress, in a hit-and-run accident. Myrtle's husband, led by Tom to believe it was Gatsby who ran down his wife, shoots and kills him. Gatsby's funeral is a sad irony: only Nick and Gatsby's father attend. Disillusioned by life among the rich and careless in the east, Nick decides to return to the Midwest. THE GREAT GATSBY has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and Gatsby as the classic self-made man who believes in the American dream that wealth brings happiness, and is betrayed by it.
| Details | | Series: | Fiction Series |
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
Industry Reviews
"There are pages so artfully contrived that one can no more imagine improvising them than one can imagine improvising a fugue."
H. L. Mencken
"Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond."
James Dickey
"The philosopher of the flapper has escaped the mordant, but he has turned grave. A curious book, a mystical glamourous story of today. It takes a deeper cut at life than hitherto has been essayed by Mr. Fitzgerald. He writes well--he always has--for he writes naturally, and his sense of form is becoming perfected."
New York Times Book Review - Edwin Clark (04/19/1925)
"And while he was at his first-rate quantum best, he used everything he knew of society--as critic, as victim--to compose at least one work, 'The Great Gatsby', that in a few pages arcs the American continent and gives us a perfect structural allegory of our deadly class-ridden longings."
Nation - E. L. Doctorow (09/30/1996)
"The novel is one that refuses to be ignored....It is not a book which might...fall into the category of those doomed to investigation by a vice commission, and yet it is a shocking book--one that reveals incredible grossness, thoughtlessness, polite corruption..."
Literary Review - Walter Yust (05/01/1925)
"I have read GATSBY over and over, and each time it comes back to me that it is not a book about a man who goes East, but rather a book about a man who comes from, and brings with him, the values of the West."
Salon - Mary Morris (08/04/2000)
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