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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The Great Gatsby

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A dazzling portrain of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby captures the decadence of the Roaring '20s with an elegance of style and tone that makes it one of the finest works of American literature. In Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald has crafted a stunning embodiment of romantic longing and a character whose enduring significance is a testament to the author's unquestioned mastery.

Self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby pines for the one thing his money cannot buy: Daisy Buchanan, wife to the wealthy, but carelessly destructive, Tom. Bearing witness to Gatsby's doomed infatuation is Nick Carraway, a cynical neighbor who filters in and out of the social scene that defines the lives of those living around Long Island Sound.

In this venerable classic, the enevitable unraveling of Gatsby's obsessions resonates with timeless themes of greed and empty ambition.

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Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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2005 August 2, Debolsillo
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The Great Gatsby
1984, Recorded Books, Recorded Books, Inc.
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Series
Unabridged Classics
Copyright Date
1984

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Narrator
Frank Muller

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ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26491089M
ISBN 10
1419347098
ISBN 13
9781419347092
OCLC/WorldCat
671299369
amazon.co.uk_asin
1419347098
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1419347098
amazon.de_asin
1419347098
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1283216

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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.

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