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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The Great Gatsby

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THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
--back cover

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English
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180

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The Great Gatsby
2021-01-17, Project Gutenberg
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The Great Gatsby
2017-02-01, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
in English
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The Great Gatsby
2017, Alma Classics
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Liao bu qi de gai ci bi
2013, Li jiang chu ban she
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2013, Debolsillo
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2013
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2012, Pocket
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The great Gatsby
2011, Arcturus
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Der große Gatsby
2007, Diogenes, Diogenes Verlag AG
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El gran Gatsby
2005, Debolsillo
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2004, Scribner
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New York, New York, USA
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1925

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Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PS3511.I9 G7 2004, PZ3.F5754 Gr PS3511.I9
lccn_permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/25010468

Contributors

Cover Art
Francis Cugat
Cover Design
Cherylynne Li

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Format
Trade Paperback
Pagination
180 p. ;
Number of pages
180

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23109860M
ISBN 10
0743273567
ISBN 13
9780743273565
LCCN
25010468
OCLC/WorldCat
57215622
Alibris ID
9780743273565
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Canadian National Library Archive
11273141
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2964
Goodreads
4671

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OL468431W

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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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