The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald and '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 is of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted and quot;gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession, and quot; it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
This man is Gatsby, an ex-gangster locked in his own mysterious profession, in a false past from which emerges at times the memory of a single pure youthful love.The young Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, moves to New York in the ...
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers.
This classic collection also includes a scholarly introduction about Fitzgerald’s life and work, offering insights into his creative genius.
This edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and ...
Gatsby hopes that his newfound wealth and dazzling parties will make Daisy reconsider. Unsuccessful upon publication, The Great Gatsby is now considered a classic of American fiction.
The Great Gatsby became one of the most popular books provided to regiments, with more than 100,000 copies shipped to soldiers overseas. By 1960, the book was selling apace and being incorporated into classrooms across the nation.
From the green light across the bay to the billboard with spectacled eyes, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 American masterpiece roars to life in K. Woodman-Maynard’s exquisite graphic novel—among the first adaptations of the book in this ...
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Professor Matthew J Bruccoli Matthew J. Bruccoli. reading " The Rosary " ( 132.21 ) is not in Fitzgerald's revised galleys ; but it could not have been an editorial insertion .
A novel depicting the rise to fame of a young man from Minnesota, during the Twenties
The very first ASE to roll off the presses in 1943 was The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Rosten, a humorous sendup of a newly arrived immigrant's experiences in English class at night school. The semiforgotten existence of the World ...