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The Great Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby: Penguin Essentials, cartea 6

Autor F. Scott Fitzgerald
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2011
The Great Gatsbyis a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.'
Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker, Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates, but always seems to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for.
As the tragic story unfolds, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed, leading to disturbing consequences. A brilliant evocation of 1920s high society, The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of this glamorous world to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.
'Not only a page-turner and a heartbreaker, it's one of the most quintessentially American novels
ever written'Time
'He (F Scott Fitzgerald) was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a
"generation"'New York Times
'The most perfectly crafted work of fiction to have come out of America' Professor Tony Tanner
'The American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers'Washington Post
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241951477
ISBN-10: 024195147X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Penguin Essentials

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He studied at Princeton University before joining the army in 1917. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic relationship and subsequent breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels,This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the NightandThe Last Tycoon(his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories andThe Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces. F. Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.

Recenzii

Not only a page-turner and a heartbreaker, it's one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written
TheAmerican masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers
The most perfectly crafted work of fiction to have come out of America
He (F Scott Fitzgerald) was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation"

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Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner.
Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life, Gatsby is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon, this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for - in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream - Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.
Like Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and, incomplete at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.
'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel'
   John Carey, Sunday Times Books of the Century

Cuprins

Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The holograph of The Great Gatsby; A note on the text; Text of the manuscript; Explanatory notes; Illustrations.