F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald; Matthew J. Bruccoli (ed.)
From Grey Matter Books, Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since June 11, 1998
From Grey Matter Books, Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since June 11, 1998
About this Item
Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Binding is tight and square. The upper corner of the front cover is just a little bruised. Dust jacket shows very little wear. 225pp. Seller Inventory # 064652
Bibliographic Details
Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
About this title
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
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