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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

by William Golding, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy

Noted 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. (read review)

Top tags: fiction,  classic,  classic literature,  1920s,  american literature (all tags)

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Lord Manleigh
  • Rated 5 stars

“How moving that Fitzgerald’s simple choice of that green light blinking in the dark distance was to become the most powerful symbol of the American Dream in our literature. It’s like Charles Foster Kane and his “Rosebud.”

Well, it’s just a perfect novel. It towers over everything else Fitzgerald wrote, almost suspiciously so, as if he sold his soul to the devil (a very Gatsby thing to do) in order to write the Great American Novel. If so, the devil has a keen sense of irony. “The...”

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stephanie d
  • Rated 2 stars

“Eh... Interesting, dissapointed with the ending, but I like happy endings. This was not a happy ending...”

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