Name: The Great Gatsby
SKU: 59771330
Price: 68.38 NZD
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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
ISBN: 9781789432480

Type

Physical Book

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher

Benediction Classics

Language

English

Pages

106

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4x15.6x1 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781789432480

Synopsis "The Great Gatsby"

"I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." F. Scott Fitzgerald (1923)."The first step American fiction has taken since Henry James." T. S. Eliot."I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby."I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby."Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald."One of the most important works in American literature - and, to many, the great American novel." - Time."This slim novel of fewer than 50,000 words, a story of secret visions and gaudy revels, of sudden violence and constant envy, shimmers with a magic that readers have long recognised." Sarah Churchwell, The Guardian.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is perhaps "The Great American Novel," and its protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is regarded as one of the truly mythic creations in American culture. It is, as Fitzgerald hoped, something new, something extraordinary. The novel is set in Long Island, during the enthusiasm, abandon, and free-flowing illegal liquor of "the Jazz Age," a term coined by Fitzgerald in his earlier collection, Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald himself was the quintessential chronicler of The Roaring Twenties.The handsome millionaire Jay Gatsby seems to have everything, but where did his wealth come from, and what is he still in search of? Gatsby's life mirrors Fitzgerald's: they both fell in love, and then struggled to establish themselves financially to prove themselves worthy. Fitzgerald wrote "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." Gatsby was a tragic hero, much like his creator.The Great Gatsby was, initially, neither a critical nor commercial success; it was only appreciated after Fitzgerald's early death. This incandescent and magical novel is now near the top of almost every list of "best novels.Francis Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He is best known for The Great Gatsby and for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. Writer Richard Ford calls Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner "the Three Kings who set the measure for every writer since."

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, Minnesota, September 24, 1896-Hollywood, California, December 21, 1940) was a military officer, host, novelist, and American writer, widely known as one of the finest authors of the 20th century, whose works are paradigmatic of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the twenties.

He wrote five novels: The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Last Tycoon, which, although unfinished, was published after his death. He also wrote numerous short stories, many of which deal with youth and promise, age and despair.

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