An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The Great Gatsby

  • 4.0 (153 ratings) ·
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Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’.

Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.

The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
(back cover)

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2017-02-01, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Great Gatsby
2017, Alma Classics
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2013, Debolsillo
in Spanish - 3. ed. con esta portada.
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Liao bu qi de Gaicibi: The great Gatsby
2013
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
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Liao bu qi de gai ci bi
2013, Li jiang chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
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Gatsby
2012, Pocket
in French
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The great Gatsby
2011, Arcturus
in English
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El gran Gatsby
2009, Alfaguara, ALFAGUARA
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Der große Gatsby
2007, Diogenes, Diogenes Verlag AG
Paperback in German
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El gran Gatsby
2005 August 2, Debolsillo
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
2001, Wordsworth Editions
Paperback in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Ware, Hertfordshire
Series
Wordsworth Classics
Copyright Date
2001

Contributors

Introduction
Guy Reynolds

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26492254M
ISBN 10
185326041X
ISBN 13
9781853260414
Google
HestSXO362YC

Work 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



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January 12, 2023 Edited by mheiman move to correct work
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