The Great Gatsby
About this book
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
Also contained in:
- The Fitzgerald Reader
- Three Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Subjects
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- american manuscripts
- antiheroes, l fiction
- class differences
- classic adaptation
- classics
- comic books, strips
- comics & graphic novels
- criticism and interpretation
- drama
- economic conditions
- facsimiles
- fiction
- fiction"
- fictional works publication type
- fiction, historical, new york (n.y.)
- fiction, psychological
- first loves
- historical
- literary
- literature
- long island (n.y.) -- fiction
- long island (n.y.), fiction
- long now manual for civilization
- love
- manuscripts
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- married people, fiction
- married women
- mistresses
- modern fiction
- open library staff picks
- psychological fiction
- readers
- revenge
- rich
- rich people
- rich people -- fiction
- romance fiction
- social life and customs
- social themes
- traffic accidents
- upper class
- wealth
- young adult fiction
- young adult fiction, classics
- young adult fiction, comics & graphic novels, classic adaptation
- young adult fiction, social themes, class differences