The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
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Anthony Heald
Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met during the war when he was penniless. Having made himself wealthy through illegal means, he now lives in a mansion across the bay from the home of Daisy Buchanan, who has since married for money. Holding on to his illusion of Daisy as perfect, he seeks to impress her with his wealth, and uses his new neighbor, Nick Carraway (our narrator), to reach her.
Daisy’s wealthy but boring husband is cheating on her. When his mistress is killed in an accident caused by Daisy, Gatsby covers for her and takes the blame. The result is a murder and an ending that reveals the failure of money to buy love or happiness.
Fitzgerald’s elegantly simple work captures the spirit of the Jazz Age and embodies America’s obsessions with wealth, power, and the promise of new beginnings.
©1925 Charles Scribner’s Sons. © renewed 1953 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan (P)2007 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Reviews
“The finest work of fiction by any of this country’s writers.”
(Washington Post)“It is humor, irony, ribaldry, pathos, and loveliness…A curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of today.”
(New York Times, April 1925)“In astonishingly beautiful, layered prose, what Scott Fitzgerald manages to do is to replicate some of the mystery of what it is to be human…One of those rare books that you can read at different times in your life, and each time it’ll do something different to you.”
(The Independent (London))“A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author’s generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology.”
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