An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

Liao bu qi de gai ci bi

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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

Liao bu qi de gai ci bi

Di 1 ban
  • 3.97 ·
  • 150 Ratings
  • 1813 Want to read
  • 135 Currently reading
  • 306 Have read

A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.

It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.

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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 Fitzgerald, Francis Scott
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, Francis Scott
2017-02-01, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Cover of: Liao bu qi de Gaicibi
Liao bu qi de Gaicibi: The great Gatsby
2013
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
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: El gran Gatsby
El gran Gatsby
2013, Debolsillo
in Spanish - 3. ed. con esta portada.
Cover of: Gatsby
Gatsby
2012, Pocket
in French
Cover of: The great Gatsby
The great Gatsby
2011, Arcturus
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 August 2, Debolsillo
Paperback in Spanish

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Feng mian ying wen ti ming : The great Gatsby.

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Series
Wai guo wen xue ming zhu ming yi cong shu. di si ji, Wai guo wen xue ming zhu ming yi cong shu
Other Titles
Great Gatsby

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Pagination
140 p.
Number of pages
140

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32120443M
Internet Archive
liaobuqidegaicib0000meif
ISBN 10
7540766212
ISBN 13
9787540766214
OCLC/WorldCat
928130550

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