The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Language:
Engleza
Publishing Date:
2016
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Paperback
Page Count:
256
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ISBN:
9781847496140
Dimensions: l: 13cm | H: 20cm | 2cm | 216g
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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.

Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the “Jazz Age”, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.
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Nota 10

de Marina-Cristiana Stan | 25/08/2019 14:55

One of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes’ invitation to lunch. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans’ tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” Nota 7

de Madalina Dobre | 25/07/2019 21:13

Rich, powerful, envied, Jay Gatsby is the crownless king of West Egg. In his sumptuous villa along the Hudson, on Long Island, is the exlusive host of a sumptuous and extravagant court, which feeds on luxurious receptions. But he is not happy: the memory of a great youthful love emerges from the mystery of his past. Gatsby desperately pursues the dream of finding Daisy, of reviving the bond with the woman who rejected him, poor and without prospects, to marry the scion of one of the greatest American families. He will have to put all the weight of his charm and power into play, but it will only serve to give life to a sweet madness destined to end in tragedy.
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