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The Great Gatsby
By Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Fiction, Classics, Literary | 122 pages
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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "best work" thus far. 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. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.--
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Sophie Phelps
"Set during the height of the dazzling Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby showcases New York at its most sparklingly spectacular. The Great War is over, the champagne is flowing, women’s hair - and skirts have never been shorter, and New York is the very seat of modernity. But look beyond the glitz and the glamour, and there is something amiss. Trouble is brewing for those who seek desperately to keep their private lives hidden, and tragedy seems to loom inevitably around every corner. Beautifully tragic, The Great Gatsby forces us to consider what it means to be human, and what price we are willing to pay for success in the modern metropolis."
