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Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Love stories Romance fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
F Scott Fitzgerald; Jesmyn Ward; Eleanor Anne Lanahan; James L W West, III |
ISBN: | 9780743273565 0743273567 |
OCLC Number: | 1052587398 |
Notes: | "First published in 1925" -- back cover. Introduction, foreword, and note on the text copyright ©2018. "Note on the text": (pages 181-184). |
Description: | xvii, 184 pages ; 21 cm |
Responsibility: | F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited [and with Note on the Text] by James L. W. West III ; [introduction by Jesmyn Ward ; foreword by Eleanor Lanahan]. |
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Abstract:
Story of the mysteriously 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 noted "gin" was the national drink and sex the national obsession. --From publisher description.
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. 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.

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