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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The Great Gatsby
Hardcover
English language
Published Nov. 3, 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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- 978-0-684-16498-4Copied ISBN!
The Great Gatsby
English language
Published Nov. 3, 1970 by Heinemann Educational Books.
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- 978-0-435-17295-4Copied ISBN!
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- 6437253
グレート・ギャツビー
252 pages
Japanese language
Published Nov. 3, 1974 by Shinchōsha.
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- 978-4-10-206301-9Copied ISBN!
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- 743365796
The Great Gatsby
English language
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88646-292-5Copied ISBN!
The Great Gatsby
220 pages
English language
Published Nov. 3, 1980 by Franklin Library.
- OCLC Number:
- 6926936
The Great Gatsby
164 pages
English language
Published Nov. 3, 1949 by The Grey Walls Press.
- OCLC Number:
- 756819661
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