An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

Wielki Gatsby

  • 3.99 ·
  • 146 Ratings
  • 1719 Want to read
  • 129 Currently reading
  • 297 Have read

„...W niedzielny poranek, gdy kościelne dzwony biły w miasteczkach nad cieśniną, wszyscy, jak jeden mąż (niekoniecznie z własną żoną), powrócili do rezydencji Gatsby'ego i wesoło bawili się na jego trawnikach.
— To bootlegger — mówiły młode damy, krążąc wśród cocktailów i kwiatów gos­podarza. — Pewnego razu zabił człowieka, który go zdemaskował. Okazało się, że to kuzyn von Hindenburga i powinowaty samego diabła ..."
Kim jest Gatsby?
Jest to w literaturze amerykańskiej bohater najbardziej słynnego i niezwykle pięknego romansu, któremu niewiele utworów światowej klasyki może dorównać. Dramatyczna postać parweniusza, zakochanego do szaleństwa w bogatej, próżnej kobie­cie z wyższych sfer, jest tragicznym symbolem romantycznej miłości, zniszczonej przez kult pieniądza.
Motyw ten, spotykany także w innych autobiograficznych powieściach F. SCOTTA FITZGERALDA, m.in. „Czuła jest noc" (1937) i „Ostatni magnat" (1940), jest odbiciem autentycznych wątków z życia samego autora.
„WIELKI GATSBY" (1925), największe osiągnięcie twórcze wybitnego pisarza, to pełna uroku i zarazem tragizmu opowieść, trzykrotnie filmowana i tłumaczona na wszystkie niemal języki świata.
--back cover

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Language
Polish
Pages
110

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2017-02-01, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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2017, Alma Classics
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El gran Gatsby
2013, Debolsillo
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2012, Pocket
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El gran Gatsby
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Wielki Gatsby
1991, COMFORT Oficyna Wydawnicza
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Edition Notes

Biblioteka romansu

Published in
Warszawa
Other Titles
The Great Gatsby
Translation Of
The Great Gatsby
Translated From
English

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3511 .I9 G7166 1991x

Contributors

Translator
Ariadna Demkowska-Bohdziewicz

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
109p.
Number of pages
110

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15315466M
Internet Archive
wielkigatsby00fitz
ISBN 10
8385377085
ISBN 13
9788385377085
OCLC/WorldCat
26744787
Library Thing
2964
Goodreads
14288138

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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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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January 12, 2023 Edited by mheiman move to correct work
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