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into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffect-ed scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he
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Jan 17, 2021 · Summary. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story is mainly narrated by Nick Carraway, who reflects on the life of his enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby, and the extravagant world of wealth and excess he inhabits. The novel explores themes of the American Dream, love, and social class.
Feb 10, 2022 · Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. 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.
6 THE GREAT GATSBY salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not per- fect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wing-
Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub-nosed motorboat that bumped the tide offshore. “It belonged to Demaine, the oil man.”. He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
Jul 8, 2020 · xvi, 216 pages ; 25 cm The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth.
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49,752 words (3 hours 1 minute) with a reading ease of 73.07 (fairly easy) № 2 in the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels set. № 51 in the Guardian’s Best 100 Novels in English (2015) set. Part of the Encyclopædia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set. № 46 in the Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century set. Fiction
