F. Scott Fitzgerald

When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the lavishly outfitted mansion next to his modest house is home to Jay Gatsby. Eventually, Nick becomes aware of Gatsby's intense interest in his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and when Daisy's brutish husband Tom probes into Gatsby's background,?he uncovers unsavoury revelations about his rival's wealth. First published in 1925,? F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel offers a definitive portrait of the opulence and recklessness of the Jazz Age.? The Great Gatsby?is not only Fitzgerald's greatest work?to many,?it is?the Great American Novel.

Relive the glorious excess of the roaring 1920s with this beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best-known novel is set in hedonistic Jazz Age Long Island and tells the story of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. A novel that touches on the topics of materialism, class, desire, and the American Dream, this enduring classic continues to capture imaginations nearly a century after its first publication. This edition includes a biographical timeline for Fitzgerald, as well as a further reading section if you'd like to learn more about the impact of this novel. One hundred years after this novel is set, this highly collectible edition of this American masterpiece is the perfect addition to any personal library. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; The Essential Tales of H. P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Inferno; The Call of the Wild and White Fang; Moby Dick; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; The Alchemist; Emma; The Secret Garden; Anne of Green Gables; The Phantom of the Opera; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; The Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women; Wuthering Heights; Peter Pan; Persuasion; Aesop’s Fables; The Constitution of the United States and Selected Writings; Crime and Punishment; Dracula; Great Expectations; The Iliad; Irish and Fairy Folk Tales; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The War of the Worlds; and The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.

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When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the lavishly outfitted mansion next to his modest house is home to Jay Gatsby. Eventually, Nick becomes aware of Gatsby's intense interest in his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and when Daisy's brutish husband Tom probes into Gatsby's background he uncovers unsavoury revelations about his rival's wealth. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel offers a definitive portrait of the opulence and recklessness of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby is not only Fitzgerald's greatest work?to many, it is the Great American Novel.

The great Gatsby, f Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the Supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the jazz age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on long island at a time when the new York Times noted "gin was the National drink and sex the National obsession," It is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the great American novel ever written.

"Burnye" dvadtsatye gody proshlogo stoletija... Vremja shikarnykh vecherinok, "sukhogo zakona" i "legkikh" deneg... Eti "novye amerikantsy" uvereny, chto rastsvet budet vechnym, chto, dostignuv vershin vlasti i bogatstva, oni obretut i lichnoe schaste... Takim byl i Dzhej Getsbi, stavshij zhertvoj bessmyslennoj pogoni za plenitelnoj mechtoj ob istinnoj i vechnoj ljubvi, kotoroj ne suzhdeno bylo sbytsja... Pered vami - samyj znamenityj roman F. S. Fitsdzheralda v novom perevode!

Long regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, The Great Gatsby expresses many of the central themes of the American myth: romance, love, the quest for wealth and status, loneliness, and corruption. The novel follows Jay Gatsby, a mysterious self-made man, in his desperate quest for the love of the beguiling Daisy Buchanan--and for a place in the highest ranks of society. Gatsby's fate reflects the emptiness and disappointment that come from his search. First published in 1925, Gatsby is regarded as the epitome of the spirit of the Roaring Twenties: the fast life, new wealth, and a glamour and a frivolity that prove to be hollow. Fitzgerald's genius portrays this world with humor, insight, and the profound sympathy that is the hallmark of all great fiction. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) was one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century. His works include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and Tender Is the Night. The Great Gatsby is by far his best-known and most beloved novel.

Solljuset rann längs huset som guldfärg nerför en penselvas, och de fläckvisa skuggorna på fasaden bara förstärkte ljusbadets styrka. Familjerna Butterworths och Larkins hus på vardera sidan stod skyddade bakom stora, kraftiga träd; bara familjen Happers hus låg i fullt solljus, och dagen lång blickade det tålmodigt och överseende ut över den dammiga grusvägen. Det här var staden Tarleton längst ner i södra Georgia, en eftermiddag i september. Så inleder en av USA:s största författare F. Scott Fitzgerald sin novell ”Isslottet” (1920), den första av tre berättelser som utspelar sig i den fiktiva staden Tarleton i den amerikanska Södern. Den här volymen innehåller förutom ”Isslottet” också de två övriga Tarletonnovellerna ”Soffpotatisen” (1920) och ”Den sista skönheten” (1929). Dessa tre noveller anses allmänt utgöra några av Fitzgeralds absolut finaste noveller, ett format han behärskade till fulländning. I Tarleton får vi följa Sally Carrol Happer, Nancy Lamar, Ailie Calhoun och männen som svansar omkring dem; här kan vi läsa om ensamhet, romans och olycklig kärlek, nostalgi över en svunnen tid samtidigt som vi dras med i jazzålderns magiska och utlevande 1920-tal. Tarletonnovellerna utges här i sprudlande översättning av Christoffer Stuveback och är den andra utgåvan av Trolltrumma i vår F. Scott Fitzgerald-serie. I boken ryms utförligt extramaterial: en introduktion av Kirk Curnutt, president för F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, två essäer om Tarleton av Lara Rodríguez Sieweke och Niklas Salmose, omfattande annoteringar samt fullständig reproduktion av hur Tarletonnovellerna ursprungligen publicerades i tidskriftsformat.

The Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby's grand effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream. Deeply romantic in its concern with self-making, ideal love, and the power of illusion, it draws on modernist techniques to capture the spirit of the materialistic, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed "the jazz age." Gatsby's aspirations remain inseparable from the rhythms and possibilities suggested by modern consumer culture, popular song, the movies; his obstacles inseparable from contemporary American anxieties about social mobility, racial mongrelization, and the fate of Western civilization. This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material about the consumer culture in which Fitzgerald was immersed; about the spirit of the jazz age; and about racial discourse in the 1920s.

Nick Carraway se muda para uma casa simples ao lado da mans o de Jay Gatsby, um misterioso milion rio, que promove constantemente eventos luxuosos em sua resid ncia, regado por gim e ao som do jazz. A vizinhan a tamb m composta pelo rico Tom Buchanan, marido de Daisy, por quem Gatsby possui um amor incondicional. Carraway observa esse mundo extravagante, t o diferente, mas n o distante, do seu, movido a riqueza e exuber ncia.

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces the reader to the post-war America and gives a gripping social commentary on the themes of power, crime, betrayal, greed and a vivid peek into the American life in the 1920s, also known as the 'Roaring Twenties'. In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway arrives in New York in pursuit of the big American dream. Nick, the story's narrator, moves in next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, the host of lavish weekly parties for the rich and the fashionable. Across the bay reside Nick's distant cousin Daisy and her philandering husband, Tom, an old classmate from Yale. Being the only link between Gatsby and his long lost love, Nick gets drawn into the enthralling world of the rich and takes the reader along on the ride, as he bears witness to their follies and emerges a new enlightened man.

The Great Gatsby, an American classic of the Jazz Age, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest literary achievement has been praised by readers one generation after another. The main events are set during the summer of the year 1922 when the narrator, Nick Carraway, rents a modest house in the vicinity of the enigmatic self-made millionaire, Jay Gatsby. In Carraway's eyes, he is a symbol of prosperity and luxury. Yet in Gatsby's chase after the ideal love, Daisy Buchanan, we see him crushed under the weight of the "American Dream". Although seemingly attainable, this concept turns out to be empty aspiration. As Gatsby engages in questionable deals steered by his obsession with Daisy, the reader observes that wealth alone does not make one untouchable nor an established member of the upper class, unless inherited and accompanied by education and status. Gatsby can be viewed as an imposter, a dreamer, a romantic, or a fool, but he is authentic when compared with the decayed morals of Daisy and Tom Buchanan. As Nick Carraway observes: "They're a rotten crowd, (...) You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." A story of unfulfilled love, detachment and aloofness of the rich, as well as Fitzgerald's personal disappointment with the society he lived in, The Great Gatsby deserves its place in the classic literature hall of fame.

An adapted and illustrated edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, at an easy-to-read level for all ages!

It's the Roaring twenties, and new York City is the place to be. Everything can be purchased, everyone can be bought. But, can you make money erase your past? It's the Roaring twenties, and it is the time of over-indulgence. As far as the eyes can see and the mind can perceive, there are ostentatious displays of wealth and even more lavish displays of decadency. Unapologetic decadency. But, does it ever stop? It's the Roaring twenties, and the great American dream has been perverted. It no longer stands for anything profound that resonates with people. But, does the idealism even attempt to stop the materialism? As more and more people lose themselves to the lure of money, ironically the only person who remains unaffected is Jay Gatsby, the enigmatic host of the most extravagant parties... This definitive tale on American culture, encased in an exquisite leather-bound edition with gilded edges and beautiful endpapers, is an epic story that can only be defined as 'a great American novel'.

The Great Gatsby (1925) is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published at the height of Fitzgerald’s career as a leading writer of American fiction, The Great Gatsby was reviewed poorly by contemporary critics, but has since been recognized as a groundbreaking work for its vision of American decadence and decay. Adapted into several influential films and adored by generations of readers and writers, The Great Gatsby is not only Fitzgerald’s crowning achievement, but one of the finest novels ever written. Nick Carraway is a young veteran and Yale graduate who moves to New York in search of work. He rents a bungalow on Long Island next door to the extravagant mansion of Jay Gatsby, a magnanimous millionaire with a mysterious past. There, he reconnects with his distant cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, a flagrant philanderer who brings Nick to the city in order to spend time with Myrtle, his impoverished mistress. Soon, he receives an invitation to a party at the Gatsby mansion, where he gets terribly drunk and meets his neighbor, who swears they served together in the Great War. As time goes by, the two begin a tenuous friendship bolstered by stories of the war and a mutual fondness for alcohol. When Nick discovers that Gatsby and Daisy have a complicated history with one another, he starts to question not only the nature of his neighbor’s kindness, but his own desire to make it big in New York. The Great Gatsby is a tragic tale of ambition and romance set in the Roaring Twenties, a decade born from war and lost to economic disaster. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a classic work of American literature reimagined for modern readers.