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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

The great Gatsby

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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.

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2013, Li jiang chu ban she
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2013, Debolsillo
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2011, Arcturus
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2009, Alfaguara, ALFAGUARA
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2008, Oxford University Press
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2007, Diogenes, Diogenes Verlag AG
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2005, Debolsillo
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xl).

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Oxford [England], New York
Series
Oxford world's classics, Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Genre
Fiction.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3511.I9 G7 2008b, PS3511.I9

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Pagination
xlv, 151 p. :
Number of pages
151

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Open Library
OL22570129M
ISBN 13
9780199536405
LCCN
2008277435
LibraryThing
2964
Goodreads
2945491

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OL468431W

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