The Great Gatsby

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Paperback, 180 pages

English language

Published May 27, 2003 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-0-7432-7356-5
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OCLC Number:
57215622

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4 stars (2 reviews)

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the bearutiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drinnk and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. (back cover)

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reviewed The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A gem and worth revisiting.

4 stars

I was forced to read this book for school English class when I was 15, and I loathed it. I read it again recently because, ironically, I have a student who must study the book for school English class. The second reading was a superior experience. This time I could appreciate Fitzgerald's bag of writing tricks that really do make this novel an 'American Classic'. I have not watched either film version of this book, nor do I intend to. Fitzgerald's beautiful use of language to conjure images of the Jazz age and it's cynical hollowness is something that film will never capture. This book is a gem and worth revisiting.

Subjects

  • Rich people
  • Mistresses
  • Traffic accidents
  • First loves
  • Revenge
  • Fiction

Places

  • Long Island (N.Y.)