An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The Great Gatsby

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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The Great Gatsby

  • 3.97 ·
  • 150 Ratings
  • 1806 Want to read
  • 135 Currently reading
  • 305 Have read

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
204

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Edition Notes

Published in
London, England
Series
Penguin Classics
Copyright Date
1990

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3511.I9

Contributors

Introduction
Tony Tanner

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
204

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26492721M
ISBN 10
0141194057
ISBN 13
9780141194059
OCLC/WorldCat
640079164
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0141194057
Goodreads
8460324

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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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