August 2011 Guest Editor Deborah Lawrenson on F Scott Fitzgerald...
F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is so full of exquisite prose it’s like being glutted on champagne and diamonds and fluttering silk. And it’s the contrast between the glittering words, and the lost illusions and tawdry underside of the American Dream in the 1920s that makes this such a poignant read. That and the best closing lines of any novel, ever.
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One of Giles Coren's favourite books.
A classic that captures the mood of the 1920's, the time after the great War when life was for living. Gatsby in pursuing the 'American Dream' finds, with devastating consequences, that money may not be the route to happiness.
November 2009 Guest Editor Katie Agnew on F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Whenever I'm asked what my favourite book of all time is I never hesitate - 'The Great Gatsby'. For me there's no contest. I first read this novel at school and I've re-read it every couple of years since. I'm obsessed with it - Fitzgerald's flawless writing style, his painfully flawed characters, the deliciously decadent Jazz Age setting and, ah, that tragic ending.
The story breaks my heart every time but like a moth to the flame, I can't help myself. I love it! I want to be in it! In fact, whenever I need a pseudonym, I use the name Jordan Buchanan, a character from 'The Great Gatsby'.
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The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel; sublime deftly written at times wickedly funny and always tightly under control by a master of the language who was at the top of his powers. In Gatsby Fitzgerald explored the Jazz Age with an intimate knowledge and perception that no other writer could have matched. Much of the happenings in the novel are pulled directly from Fitzgerald's own hedonistic experiences. A cautionary tale about reaching for the American Dream and being crushed by it. No one is certain where Gatsby's money comes from but they are all willing to help him spend it. He yearns to reconnect with his lost love Daisy Buchanan but is there any place for him in her world?
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The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel; sublime deftly written at times wickedly funny and always tightly under control by a master of the language who was at the top of his powers.
The Great Gatsby features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Start Classics an imprint of Start Publishing Pd LLC
The Great Gatsby has 128 pages
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