An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The Great Gatsby

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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The Great Gatsby

  • 4.0 (235 ratings)
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  • 193 Currently reading
  • 489 Have read

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, he longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. (back cover)

Publish Date
Publisher
Vintage
Language
English
Pages
148

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Cover of: The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
2021, Standard Ebooks
in English
Cover of: The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
2021-01-17, Project Gutenberg
Digital Book in English
Cover of: The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
2017, Alma Classics
in English - Evergreen Edition
Cover of: The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
2017-02-01, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
in English
Cover of: El gran Gatsby
El gran Gatsby
2013, Debolsillo
in Spanish - 3. ed. con esta portada.
Cover of: Liao bu qi de gai ci bi
Liao bu qi de gai ci bi
2013, Li jiang chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
Cover of: Liao bu qi de Gaicibi
Liao bu qi de Gaicibi: The great Gatsby
2013
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
Cover of: Gatsby
Gatsby
2012, Pocket
in French
Cover of: The great Gatsby
The great Gatsby
2011, Arcturus
in English
Cover of: The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
2010, Vintage
Paperback in English
Cover of: El gran Gatsby
El gran Gatsby
2009, Alfaguara, ALFAGUARA
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Der große Gatsby
Der große Gatsby
2007, Diogenes, Diogenes Verlag AG
Paperback in German
Cover of: El gran Gatsby
El gran Gatsby
2005, Debolsillo
Paperback in Spanish

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Edition Notes

UK / CAN edition

Published in
London, England

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3511.I9

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
148

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25420734M
ISBN 10
009954153X
Alibris ID
9780099541530
Google
ebIcTlnESUgC
Amazon ID (ASIN)
009954153X
Goodreads
9357704

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Work ID
OL468431W

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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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