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Publikuota 1953 m. rugpjūčio 9 d., Charles Scribner's Sons.

ISBN:
978-0-684-71760-9
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OCLC numeris:
490033450

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In the nearly fifty years since its publication, THE GREAT GATSBY has rightly taken its place as one of Fitzgerald's masterpieces, and indeed as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. --back cover

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apžvelgė autoriaus F. Scott Fitzgerald knygą The Great Gatsby (Everyman's Library Classics)

Gatsby might be 'great' but the book he's in is not.

I freely admit that what finally got me to read this after so long was an article in The New York Times where it is described as a 'quick read' at barely 200 pages and possible to get through in an afternoon. I did not use an entire afternoon, but had a few evenings and therefore found myself reading about Jay Gatsby for the first time at the centenary of his emergence.

My first thought was that the book is quite funnier than I'd imagined. Fitzgerald loves to throw in lines for Nick Carraway that capture the silliness that surrounds him. This made the book a far more amusing read than I had anticipated and helped keep my interest throughout.

As a story, The Great Gatsby is terribly straightforward. There's little in the way of ingenuity per se, and it is the characters, their setting, the culture that surrounds them, …

Temos

  • Traffic accidents -- Fiction.
  • Married women -- Fiction.
  • First loves -- Fiction.
  • Rich people -- Fiction.
  • Mistresses -- Fiction.
  • Revenge -- Fiction.
  • Long Island (N.Y.) -- Fiction.