The Great Gatsby

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Mass Market Paperback, 186 pages

English language

Published March 9, 1978 by Bantam Books.

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He was in love with the Golden Girl of a gilded era. He was Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who gave wild and lavish parties attended by strangers. "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars." She was Daisy Buchanan, a young rich beauty with bright eyes and a passionate mouth. "High in a white palace, the kings daughter, the golden girl. Even her voice was full of money." A great novel of a glittering era, of amazing richness and scope, this is the most dazzling fiction we possess of the jazz age's reckless revels. A fable of the roaring twenties that will survive as a legend. --back cover

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reviewed The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

A gem and worth revisiting.

I was forced to read this book for school English class when I was 15, and I loathed it. I read it again recently because, ironically, I have a student who must study the book for school English class. The second reading was a superior experience. This time I could appreciate Fitzgerald's bag of writing tricks that really do make this novel an 'American Classic'. I have not watched either film version of this book, nor do I intend to. Fitzgerald's beautiful use of language to conjure images of the Jazz age and it's cynical hollowness is something that film will never capture. This book is a gem and worth revisiting.

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