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Why
we chose this book
I read Gatsby every summer and love it more each time. As I
grow older, I
am able to bring my own life experiences and insights into human nature to
each page. I escape into Gatsby's glittering gilded life and Daisy's
intoxicating lightness of being. Rediscover this Great American
Novel. Beth
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Editorial Review
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to
write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful
and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful,
intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great
Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for
which he is best known. 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.
Self-made,
self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and
his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the
promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the
orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then,
but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms
farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and
eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the
American Dream.
Spare,
elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby
is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
From
the Publisher
This is the definitive,
textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature,
The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his
love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of
readers. But the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from
Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule.
Subsequent printings introduced further departures from the author's
words. This edition, based on the Cambridge critical text, restores all
the language of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Drawing on the manuscript and
surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and
corrections, this is the authorized text -- The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald
intended it.
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