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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Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
the novel, the critics, the background
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
--first edition jacket
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Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: the novel, the critics, the background
1977, Charles Scribner's Sons
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Table of Contents
pt. 1.
The novel --
The great Gatsby -- -- pt. 2.
Intention and genesis : the author's view --
Absolution -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The untrimmed Christmas tree : the religious background of The great Gatsby -- Henry Dan Piper
Letters about The great Gatsby -- -- [An
introduction to The great Gatsby] -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The craft of revision : The great Gatsby -- Kenneth Eble -- pt. 3.
Achievement : the critics' view --
The great Gatsby -- H.L. Mencken
The great Gatsby -- John M. Kenny, Jr.
New York Chronicle -- Gilbert Seldes -- [The
great Gatsby] -- Arthur Mizener
The romance of money -- Malcolm Cowley
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby : legendary bases and allegorical significances -- John Henry Raleigh
Color-symbolism in The great Gatsby -- Daniel J. Schneider
The greatness of "Gatsby" -- Charles Thomas Samuels
Patterns in The great Gatsby -- Victor A. Doyno -- pt. 4.
The Jazz Age and The great Gatsby -- -- [The
Fuller-McGee case] -- Henry Dan Piper
The New York Times reports the Fuller-McGee case --
[New York in the 1920's : Arnold Rothstein and his circle] -- Lloyd Morris
Jay Gatsby's hidden source of wealth -- John H. Randall III
Fitzgerald's Jay Gatz and young Ben Franklin -- Floyd C. Watkins
[Rules for self-improvement] -- Benjamin Franklin
The self-made man in American -- Irvin G. Wyllie -- [The
end of the American dream] -- David F. Trask.
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Reprint. Previously published: New York : Scribner's, 1970. Scribner research anthologies.
Includes bibliographical references.
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