"The Great Gatsby" is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully ...Show synopsis"The Great Gatsby" is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker, Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates, but always seems to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. As the tragic story unfolds, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed, leading to disturbing consequences. A brilliant evocation of 1920s high society, "The Great Gatsby" peels away the layers of this glamorous world to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart. "Not only a page-turner and a heartbreaker, it's one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written". ("Time"). "He (F Scott Fitzgerald) was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation"". ("New York Times"). "The most perfectly crafted work of fiction to have come out of America". (Professor Tony Tanner). "The American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers". ("Washington Post"). F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He studied at Princeton University before joining the army in 1917. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic relationship and subsequent breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, "This Side of Paradise", "The Great Gatsby", "The Beautiful and the Damned", "Tender is the Night" and "The Last Tycoon" (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and "The Crack-Up", a selection of autobiographical pieces. F. Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.Hide synopsis
The Great Gatsby – Mass-market paperback
(1992)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guy Reynolds (Introduction and notes by), Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by)
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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ISBN: 185326041X
ISBN-13: 9781853260414
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Description:good. 182, wraps. A Scribner Classic. When F. Scott Fitzgerald...good. 182, wraps. A Scribner Classic. When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920's, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally basedon the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure--a phenomenon the high-living writer was only too familiar with. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald looks deeply into himself and his milieu to create the story of James Gatz, a self-educated nobody from North Dakota who has amassed a fortune and adopted the persona of Jay Gatsby, an Oxford-educated man about town, for the sole purpose of winning back the heart of Daisy, the woman he loved in his youth. Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan--a brutal, ignorant racist who embodies the corruption that can come with unlimited wealth. As Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom--and the narrator, Daisy's cousin Nick Carroway, who serves as the author's spokesman--play out the drama in a small Long Island town, Fitzgerald makes it increasingly clear that life is meaningless when it is based on money and glamor at the expense of the solid American values of self-reliance and hard work--and Gatsby's sad end underscores the point. The Great Gatsby has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and, just as Fitzgerald's book grew out of the tradition that included Henry James and Edith Wharton, its influence on later writers from J. D. Salinger to John O'Hara cannot be overestimated. The book remains vividly alive and widely read years after its writing.
I read The Great Gatsby many years ago and needed to re-familiarize with it.
I now remember how wonderful a story it is.
We all need to read it again and remember how simple the story really is to like.
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i loved this story ,ive read it many times beofre but i lost my copy of it ,so i bought this one ,if you liked the film version ,you ll like the book ,i didnt like the sad ending but its a classic story and i think everyone should read something as good as this at least once in their life
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This work is a "classic" for a reason. Characters are vivid and strong. Fitzgerald uses the English language so well that you want to reread passages just to experience them again. Yet the plot is complex and challenging. If you have only experienced it as required reading - try it again.
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My son just graduated as a junior and he had to read Great Gatsby this year in school. Out of all the classic books I read in school Great Gatsby was my favorite. I am famous for saying that I can?t believe kids are still reading the same classic books that I (and my parents) read when we were in ...
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If The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, and The Great Gatsby were all tossed into a literary cage-fighting match together, which book would emerge as the victor? To make this interesting, let's include The Hunger Games, which isn't a literarly classic like the others but IS about ...
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