- Category: Downloads » eBooks » Fiction & Literature » Classics
- Format: eBook Learn more about the eBook format using Tower WIKI.
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- ISBN: 0743273567
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100423568
- Release Date: September 30, 2004
-
Average Customer Review:
(1 customer review)
- Tower.com Sales Rank: #4 in (See Top 100 Bestsellers)
- #1 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #1 in Classics (See Top 100 Classics Bestsellers)
|
|
|
Product DescriptionMore Downloads by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)Discover More Information About F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)Run a Quick Search on "The Great Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Great Gatsby"Browse more products related to "F. Scott Fitzgerald"ReviewIn 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald''s finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author''s generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald''s--and his country''s--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that''s no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby''s rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream. It''s also a love story, of sorts, 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--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel''s more famous descriptions. His millions made, 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. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. Product noteIn 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream. It's also a love story, of sorts, 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--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, 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. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. Short DesriptionNoted Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli draws upon years of research to present the Fitzgerald''s Jazz Age romance exactly as he intended according to the original manuscript, revisions, and corrections--with explanatory notes. Reprint. In his introduction, Harold Bloom states that The Great Gatsby "has become part of what must be called the American mythology." This volume offers a complete critical survey of the novel, including examinations of its structure and narrative stance, redefining of the hero, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index. If You Enjoy "The Great Gatsby (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
Customer Reviews for "The Great Gatsby (Paperback)" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)Most Recent Customer Reviews  Thats Gatsby!, May 8, 2008
By TeamLocke
The Great Gatsby is one of those novels you never forget. I generally pick it up
every two years or so and am always surprised by its freshness, despite being
well over 60 years old. Its charismatic youth and otherworldliness bring this
tale of tragedy and never knowing when to stop a certain levity and suspends you
fully in the world of Gatsby.
Related Products
Fahrenheit 51 - Ray Bradbury The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen Classics Bestsellers
Fiction & Literature Bestselling Downloads
Explore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
