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Jazz Age elegy to elusive American Dream.

If you're intrigued by the opulence and disillusionment of the Roaring Twenties, "The Great Gatsby" offers that in spades. It's a dazzling and poignant exploration of aspiration, love, and the myths we cling to. Fitzgerald's prose is a pure pleasure to read, effortlessly painting the era's lavish scene and its underlying troughs of emptiness. This book might just redefine your understanding of the elusive American dream and what it means to truly yearn for something just out of reach.

  • Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2003)
  • Long Island Reads (2002)
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The Great Gatsby

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ISBN: 9780141182636
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date of Publication: 2000-02-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.93
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An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141182636 can be found here. Day and night Jay Gatsby's mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret longing that can never be fulfilled. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.
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Jazz Age elegy to elusive American Dream.

If you're intrigued by the opulence and disillusionment of the Roaring Twenties, "The Great Gatsby" offers that in spades. It's a dazzling and poignant exploration of aspiration, love, and the myths we cling to. Fitzgerald's prose is a pure pleasure to read, effortlessly painting the era's lavish scene and its underlying troughs of emptiness. This book might just redefine your understanding of the elusive American dream and what it means to truly yearn for something just out of reach.

  • Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2003)
  • Long Island Reads (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.