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 …
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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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グレート・ギャツビー
356 pages
Japanese language
Published Nov. 3, 2006 by Chūō Kōron Shinsha.
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- 978-4-12-403504-9Copied ISBN!
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- 675065647
Il grande Gatsby
240 pages
Italian language
Published Nov. 11, 2013 by Feltrinelli.
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- 978-88-07-90023-5Copied ISBN!
Der große Gatsby
taschenbuch, 188 pages
German language
Published Nov. 3, 1988 by Diogenes.
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- 978-3-257-20183-3Copied ISBN!
El Gran Gatsby
electronic resource
Spanish language
Published Nov. 3, 2014 by Editorial Digital.
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- 978-9977-58-410-2Copied ISBN!
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