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Item Specifics - Fiction Books
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Author:
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph
Bruccoli, Scott F. Fitzgerald
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Softcover
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Publisher:
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Simon & Schuster
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Edition:
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1
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ISBN-10:
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0684801523
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Edition Description:
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Reprint
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ISBN-13:
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9780684801520
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Category:
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Classics
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Publication Year:
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1995
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Very Good
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Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2009 Muze
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Here is a copy of:
" The Great Gatsby
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by:
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This book is in overall very good, solid condition.
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Review(s) from the satisfied consumer:
... Having
reread this book for the first time in 20 years, I can confirm that
there's a reason that it's considered one of the very best American
novels. However, my reaction to the story was different than when I
first read it in high school. I recall that back then I was hoping
that Daisy and Gatsby's love story would ultimately yield a happy
ending. Now, I found them both to be such shallow creatures that
they inspired no pity. While I considered the characters to be
emotionally stunted, that dooesn't mean I was not impressed with
Fitzergerald's skillful rendering. As in most forms of art, in
literature it is more difficult to accurately and interestingly
portray nothingness than to describe a richly endowed subject. At
this more cynical age, I found Daisy to be a remarkable emotional
void, and Gatsby's quest to pour all of his hopes and dreams into
such a shallow cauldron only confirmed his own vapidity. One thing
that hasn't changed in all these years is my amazement at
Fitzgerald's ability to set a scene. His descriptive passages are
truly poetic, and his command of word choice in unparalleled. All
this made for a stimulating and delightful read ...
*****
***** *****
***** *****
... No more perfect American book exists. Jay Gatsby
pursues the American dream with a single minded zeal and the closer
he gets to his dream the emptier he is. The greatness of the book
is both in this theme and in the way Fitzgerald makes Gatsby stand
for all of us Americans. In his later works Fitzgerald falters but
here every last detail is in its proper place. The narrator Nick is
the perfect voice for this story. Through his eyes we may see that
Gatsby is not all that Gatsby wants to be but like Nick we let
ourselves be seduced anyway. The most superficial creature in this
book, Daisy, is the object of Gatsby's lifelong obsession. She is
about as weak as that flower and no more complex. Only Gatsby with
his undying ability to dream which is unmatched by any character in
fiction and the reason we all love him can imagine she is anything
more than the common flower of her namesake. Everything functions
and happens exactly as it should. No plot, I suggest, can be
repeated by more readers. I put this in a tie with Hemingway's The
Sun Also Rises for greatest book by an American. Hemingway's book
is equally great though for quite different reasons. I think in his
next book Tender is the Night Fitzgerald is trying to cover
Hemingway's terrain but unlike Hemingway Fitzgerald does not really
belong in Europe. Hemingway uncovers what it is to be American by
showing Americans outside America and in contrast to Europeans.
Fitzgerald never brings his Americans abroad in contact with
anything but each other. But in this book he is brilliant. I just
wish he would have stayed put ...
*****
***** *****
***** *****
... THE
GREAT GATSBY superficially is the story of what happens to Nick
Carraway, and the conclusions he draws from his experiences. Yet
the very experiences of his own become the theme of the book. Nick,
as a narrator, becomes significant in the thematic content. Like
many American novels in the same time period, THE GREAT GATSBY
relies heavily on variety of symbols. A symbol may function on
several levels at once. A symbol may represent an idea but also
function as an idea throught the book. One of the central idea that
stands out and persists throughout the other novel is wealth.
Fitzgerald's persoanl life has contributed a greal deal to this
idea of wealth. In fact, his own life has more direct pertinence to
his work than the lives of most writers. The idea of wealth
ocuupies a great deal and achieves a central role in the novel, as
well as Fitzgerald's life. Nick Carraway is able to see the
self-destructive nature of fascination of wealth. Maybe this is the
message Fitzgerald wants to get across as he was deeply possessed
by such fasination of materialism ...
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Additional Information about
Critical Studies
Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2009 Muze
Inc. All rights reserved.
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Synopsis
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When F. Scott
Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American
Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that
the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but
moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time
become increasingly focused on money and pleasure--a phenomenon the
high-living writer was only too familiar with. In THE GREAT GATSBY,
Fitzgerald looks deeply into himself and his milieu to create the
story of James Gatz, a self-educated nobody from North Dakota who
has amassed a fortune and adopted the persona of Jay Gatsby, an
Oxford-educated man about town, for the sole purpose of winning
back the heart of Daisy, the woman he loved in his youth. Daisy is
now married to Tom Buchanan--a brutal, ignorant racist who embodies
the corruption that can come with unlimited wealth. As Gatsby,
Daisy, and Tom--and the narrator, Daisy's cousin Nick Carroway, who
serves as the author's spokesman--play out the drama in a small
Long Island town (the East Hampton of its day), Fitzgerald makes it
increasingly clear that life is meaningless when it is based on
money and glamour at the expense of the solid American values of
self-reliance and hard work--and Gatsby's sad end underscores the
point. THE GREAT GATSBY has long been celebrated as the archetypal
American novel, and, just as Fitzgerald's book grew out of the
tradition that included Henry James and Edith Wharton, its
influence on later writers from J. D. Salinger to John O'Hara
cannot be overestimated. The book remains vividly alive and widely
read years after its writing.
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Size
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Length:
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216 pages
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Height:
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8.0 in.
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Width:
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5.3 in.
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Thickness:
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0.8 in.
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Weight:
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8.8 oz.
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Publisher's Note
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Magnificently
restored to include all of Fitzgerald's own revisions, manuscript
notes, and corrected proofs, this definitive edition presents
Fitzgerald's masterpiece as the author himself intended it. The
timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is
widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the Great American
Novel ever written.
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 form 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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Industry reviews
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"There are pages
so artfully contrived that one can no more imagine improvising them
than one can imagine improvising a fugue."
H. L. MenckenÂ
"Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the
original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond."
James DickeyÂ
"The philosopher of the flapper has escaped the mordant, but
he has turned grave. A curious book, a mystical glamourous story of
today. It takes a deeper cut at life than hitherto has been essayed
by Mr. Fitzgerald. He writes well--he always has--for he writes
naturally, and his sense of form is becoming perfected."
New York Times Book Review - Edwin
Clark (04/19/1925)
"And while he was at his first-rate quantum best, he used
everything he knew of society--as critic, as victim--to compose at
least one work, 'The Great Gatsby', that in a few pages arcs the
American continent and gives us a perfect structural allegory of
our deadly class-ridden longings."
Nation - E. L.
Doctorow (09/30/1996)
"The novel is one that refuses to be ignored....It is not a
book which might...fall into the category of those doomed to
investigation by a vice commission, and yet it is a shocking
book--one that reveals incredible grossness, thoughtlessness,
polite corruption..."
Literary Review - Walter
Yust (05/01/1925)
"I have read GATSBY over and over, and each time it comes
back to me that it is not a book about a man who goes East, but
rather a book about a man who comes from, and brings with him, the
values of the West."
Salon - Mary
Morris (08/04/2000)
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