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The Great Gatsby
- 185 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 1925
- 1,180 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. --first edition jacket.
- Relationships
- Classics
- Romance
- Romance, historical
- Married people
- Rich people
- Married women
- First loves
2 What to expect
A short, lyrical novel of Jazz Age wealth and longing, told by Nick Carraway about his mysterious neighbor Gatsby. Every line is polished; it rewards a reread.
Good for readers who want: a classic, the Jazz Age, and a short read.
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Read it on the Internet Archive4 About F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
5 More by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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