The Great Gatsby: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Author), Bradbury, Malcolm (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1101908297 ISBN-13: 9781101908297 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Friendship |
Dewey: 813.52 |
LCCN: 2020036273 |
Lexile Measure: 710 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 8.1" (0.75 lbs) 208 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Fitzgerald's masterpiece--the quintessential Jazz Age novel--now in a hardcover Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics edition For generations of enthralled readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. Gatsby emerges as if from nowhere, evading questions about his past and throwing dazzling parties sparkling with champagne and jazz at his luxurious Long Island mansion. Nick Carraway, a young man who has moved in next door, is fascinated by his oddly detached neighbor, and by his discovery that Gatsby is motivated by a single-minded quest to regain his long-lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Nick finds something both appalling and appealing about the intensity of Gatsby's ambition to reinvent himself. But Daisy and her wealthy husband are cynical and careless people, and as Gatsby's dream collides with reality, Nick is witness to the violence and tragedy that result. The Great Gatsby's remarkable staying power, nearly a century after its publication, is owed both to the lyrical freshness of its storytelling and to the way that it illuminates the hollow core of the glittering American dream. |