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| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1991-08-30 Classical portrayal of love and violence during the Twenties. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-01-13 Set in the 1920's Jazz Age on Long Island, The Great Gatsby chronicles narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. First published in 1925, the book has enthralled generations of readers and is considered one of the greatest American novels. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1973 |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald Nicolas Tredell, 1999 Presents a selection of critical responses to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, including both contemporary and later criticism; and includes brief biographical information about Fitzgerald |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby was first published ninety-five years ago in 1925. Regarded as his magnum opus, it is set during the “Roaring 20s” in America and is a vivid chronicle of the decadence, glitz and excesses of the “Jazz Age”. This representative work is a cautionary critique of the American dream which has made it one of the most quintessential American novels of all time. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who moves to East Egg and settles right opposite Jay Gatsby’s mansion. Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, is a flamboyant albeit reserved man with a mysterious past. Nick is intrigued by this secretive man who throws extravagant parties every weekend and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Eventually details of how Gatsby amassed all that wealth from his murky business interests unfurl, along with his fatal obsession with a married woman, Daisy Buchanan, which ultimately leads to his demise. The Great Gatsby explores themes of idealism, materialism, debauchery, social upheaval and more. This book is still strikingly relevant in the materialistic world we live in, a world that no longer frowns upon the distasteful show of wealth and fame. With this special edition, we celebrate the 95th anniversary of this literary masterpiece. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald Editorial Aleph, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2015-06-15 A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. Her voice is full of money, Gatsby says admiringly. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald's Original Publisher F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2013-05-10 The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher. 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. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Book Analysis) Bright Summaries, 2018-05-07 Unlock the more straightforward side of The Great Gatsby with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the classic American novel about the importance and futility of dreams. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, whose ability to make his dreams a reality through sheer force of will initially seems boundless. However, this self-made millionaire and embodiment of the American Dream eventually discovers that even love, wealth and ambition are powerless in the face of rigid class boundaries, proving that the myth of the American Dream ultimately rings hollow. Today, The Great Gatsby is considered the quintessential novel about the American Jazz Age, and is widely viewed as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. Fitzgerald drew a great deal of inspiration from his own experiences of the Roaring Twenties in New York to write the novel, and his status as one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century can be largely attributed to The Great Gatsby’s enduring success. Find out everything you need to know about The Great Gatsby in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: •A complete plot summary •Character studies •Key themes and symbols •Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com! |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, 2002 Documents the social climate during which the American classic was written, identifying the events and figures that contributed to its writing that were familiar to its first readers in 1925, in a companion volume that also describes Fitzgerald's arduous composition process. Original. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's, 2019-11-27 Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s, during the prosperous and crazy years following World War I. Fitzgerald tells the famous love story of Jay Gatsby and Daisy who, despite her great passion, marries the insensitive but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. With the end of the war, Gatsby blindly devotes himself to getting rich as a way to win Daisy back. The story is told by Nick Carraway, a young man who rents a modest cottage next to the Gatsby Mansion, observes and exposes the facts without understanding well that world of extravagance, wealth and impending tragedy. The Great Gatsby is considered a worldwide classic and a must read to all of those who love literature. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby: A Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-01-05 A beautifully illustrated version of the original 1925 edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Great American novel. Widely considered to be the greatest American novel of all time, The Great Gatsby is the story of the wealthy, quixotic Jay Gatsby and his obsessive love for debutante Daisy Buchanan. It is also a cautionary tale of the American Dream in all its exuberance, decadence, hedonism, and passion. First published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons, The Great Gatsby sold modestly and received mixed reviews from literary critics of the time. Upon his death in 1940, Fitzgerald believed the book to be a failure, but a year later, as the U.S. was in the grips of the Second World War, an initiative known as Council on Books in Wartime was created to distribute paperbacks to soldiers abroad. The Great Gatsby became one of the most popular books provided to regiments, with more than 100,000 copies shipped to soldiers overseas. By 1960, the book was selling apace and being incorporated into classrooms across the nation. Today, it has sold over 25 million copies worldwide in 42 languages. This exquisitely rendered edition of the original 1925 printing reintroduces readers to Fitzgerald's iconic portrait of the Jazz Age, complete with specially commissioned illustrations by Adam Simpson that reflect the gilded splendor of the Roaring Twenties. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, 2000 The Great Gatsby is regarded as the most widely taught and read American literary classic. This volume is intended to help readers fully enjoy and understand this work that continues to become part of the equipment of educated people. Also provides information on the author's intentions in writing this work and the knowledge, values, standards and biases of the public at the time of its initial publication. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2020-11-17 A deluxe trade paperback edition of The Great Gatsby, a true classic of 20th-century literature and one of America’s best-loved and iconic novels. This edition of The Great Gatsby has been updated by F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and an introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. Featuring the iconic original cover art and French flaps, this is a must-have for all Gatsby fans. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously 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. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: Encyclopaedia Britannica Hugh Chisholm, 1910 This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1993 A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2002-04-25 The first edition ever published of Trimalchio, original version of Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-01-01 THE GREAT GATSBY is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. Fitzgerald-inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore-began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, something new-something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. Progress was slow, with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was vague and persuaded the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald was repeatedly ambivalent about the book's title and he considered a variety of alternatives, including titles that referenced the Roman character Trimalchio; the title he was last documented to have desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. In its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title Great American Novel. In 1998, the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Simon Levy, Guthrie Theater, 2005 |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: So We Read On Maureen Corrigan, 2014-09-09 The Fresh Air book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't. Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece may be one of the most popular novels in America, many of us first read it when we were too young to fully comprehend its power. Offering a fresh perspective on what makes Gatsby great -- and utterly unusual -- So We Read On takes us into archives, high school classrooms, and even out onto the Long Island Sound to explore the novel's hidden depths, a journey whose revelations include Gatsby 's surprising debt to hard-boiled crime fiction, its rocky path to recognition as a classic, and its profound commentaries on the national themes of race, class, and gender. With rigor, wit, and infectious enthusiasm, Corrigan inspires us to re-experience the greatness of Gatsby and cuts to the heart of why we are, as a culture, borne back ceaselessly into its thrall. Along the way, she spins a new and fascinating story of her own. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26 (LOA #353) F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2022-04-12 Library of America’s authoritative Fitzgerald edition continues with his greatest masterpiece and best story collection of stories in newly edited texts This long-awaited second volume of Library of America’s authoritative edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald features the author’s acknowledged masterpiece and most popular book, The Great Gatsby. It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel—for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan’s voice is “full of money”), its dominance of high school and college curricula, and its claims upon the public imagination. The novel is presented in a newly edited text, correcting numerous errors and restoring Fitzgerald’s preferred American spellings. Also included in this volume are Fitzgerald’s third collection of stories, All the Sad Young Men, which includes some of the author’s best short fiction—Winter Dreams,” “The Rich Boy,” and “Absolution”—as well as a generous selection of stories and nonfiction from the period 1920–1926, all in newly corrected texts. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby , 2013 |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby and Other Works F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-01-05 Three of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novels of the Jazz Age in one volume. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s stories are emblematic of the Lost Generation, which came of age in the years following World War I. Along with The Great Gatsby—Fitzgerald’s most well-known novel—this volume also includes his earlier works, This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. Each novel presents the aura of the Jazz Age in a different context, painting a wide-ranging picture of the uncertainty and upheaval faced by Americans at the time. This classic collection also includes a scholarly introduction about Fitzgerald’s life and work, offering insights into his creative genius. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-01-05 A must-have new edition of one of the great American novels—and one of America's most popular—featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and a striking new cover that brings the quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties into the 2020s The basis for the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper Young, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party never seems to end, he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls around him--that he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the war, that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of the enigmatic Gatsby, for whom one thing will always be out of reach: Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from Gatsby's just across the bay. A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century. This edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work Horst H. Kruse, 2014-08-30 F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work probes the complex story behind the sources that inspired Fitzgerald, his writing of the novel, and the enduring legacy of The Great Gatsby. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: Heroines, new edition Kate Zambreno, 2024-03-05 A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade. I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order—pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature. On the last day of December 2009, Kate Zambreno, then an unpublished writer, began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister, arising from her obsession with literary modernism and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her partner held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants and melancholy portraits of the fates of the modernist “wives and mistresses, reclaiming the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers' muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. Over the course of two years, Frances Farmer Is My Sister helped create a community of writers and devised a new feminist discourse of writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon. In Heroines, Zambreno extends the polemic begun on her blog into a dazzling, original work of literary scholarship. Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write it—she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles feminine experience to the realm of the “minor,” and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds. “ANXIETY: When she experiences it, it's pathological,” writes Zambreno. “When he does, it's existential.” With Heroines, Zambreno provided a model for a newly subjectivized criticism, prefiguring many group biographies and forms of autotheory and hybrid memoirs that were to come in the years to follow. A book that has become its own canon, Heroines was named one of the 50 Books that define the past 5 Years in Literature by Flavorwire, an Essential Feminist Manifesto by Dazed, and one of the 50 Greatest Books by Women in Buzzfeed. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-02-02 A sumptuously illustrated adaptation casts the powerful imagery of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel in a vivid new format. From the green light across the bay to the billboard with spectacled eyes, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 American masterpiece roars to life in K. Woodman-Maynard’s exquisite graphic novel—among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolors, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, as well as the fluidity of Nick Carraway’s unreliable narration. Excerpts from the original text wend through the illustrations, and imagery and metaphors are taken to literal, and often whimsical, extremes, such as when a beautiful partygoer blooms into an orchid and Daisy Buchanan pushes Gatsby across the sky on a cloud. This faithful yet modern adaptation will appeal to fans with deep knowledge of the classic, while the graphic novel format makes it an ideal teaching tool to engage students. With its timeless critique of class, power, and obsession, The Great Gatsby Graphic Novel captures the energy of an era and the enduring resonance of one of the world’s most beloved books. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2014-08-18 “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” --- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” --- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. Fitzgerald, inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore, began planning the novel in 1923 desiring to produce, in his words, something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. Progress was slow with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was too vague and convinced the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald was ambivalent about the book's title, at various times wishing to re-title the novel Trimalchio in West Egg. First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title Great American Novel. The book is consistently ranked among the greatest works of American literature. In 1998 the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best novel in the English language. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-06 ONCE AGAIN TO ZELDA The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. A youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922 inspired the novel. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. He submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After his revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. The final title he desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. Painter Francis Cugat's final cover design impressed Fitzgerald who incorporated a visual element from the art into the novel. After its publication by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews, although some literary critics believed it did not equal Fitzgerald's previous efforts and signaled the end of the author's literary achievements. Gatsby was a commercial failure that sold fewer than 20,000 copies by October, and Fitzgerald's hopes of a monetary windfall from the novel were unrealized. When the author died in 1940, he believed himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. After his death, the novel faced a critical and scholarly re-examination amid World War II, and it soon became a core part of most American high school curricula and a focus of American popular culture. Numerous stage and film adaptations followed in the subsequent decades. Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while contemporary scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. As with other works by Fitzgerald, criticisms include allegations of antisemitism. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-06-08 ONCE AGAIN TO ZELDA The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. A youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922 inspired the novel. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. He submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After his revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. The final title he desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. Painter Francis Cugat's final cover design impressed Fitzgerald who incorporated a visual element from the art into the novel. After its publication by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews, although some literary critics believed it did not equal Fitzgerald's previous efforts and signaled the end of the author's literary achievements. Gatsby was a commercial failure that sold fewer than 20,000 copies by October, and Fitzgerald's hopes of a monetary windfall from the novel were unrealized. When the author died in 1940, he believed himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. After his death, the novel faced a critical and scholarly re-examination amid World War II, and it soon became a core part of most American high school curricula and a focus of American popular culture. Numerous stage and film adaptations followed in the subsequent decades. Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while contemporary scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. As with other works by Fitzgerald, criticisms include allegations of antisemitism. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald on Writing Larry W. Phillips, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2024-11-19 A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s remarks on his craft, taken from his works and letters to friends and colleagues—an essential trove of advice for aspiring writers. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously decreed, “An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever after.” Fitzgerald's own work has gone on to be reviewed and discussed for over one hundred years. His masterpiece The Great Gatsby brims with the passion and opulence that characterized the Jazz Age—a term Fitzgerald himself coined. These themes also characterized his life: Fitzgerald enlisted in the US army during World War I, leading him to meet his future wife, Zelda, while stationed in Alabama. Later, along with Ernest Hemingway and other American artist expats, he became part of the “Lost Generation” in Europe. Fitzgerald wrote books “to satisfy [his] own craving for a certain type of novel,” leading to modern American classics including Tender Is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned. In this collection of excerpts from his books, articles, and personal letters to friends and peers, Fitzgerald illustrates the life of the writer in a timeless way. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Beautiful and Damned + The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2022-05-17 The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream._x000D_ The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after the Great War and in the early 1920s. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Jungle Upton Sinclair, 1920 |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Achieving of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920-1925 Robert Emmet Long, 1979 The only critical study to date to be concerned with The Great Gatsby in book length, this work provides an in-depth look at the art and evolution of Fitzgerald's greatest novel. It traces Fitzgerald's early efforts to define his characters' relationship to American culture, and to shape a distinctive vision, in This Side of paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and a number of revealing short stories. The literary influences on Fitzgerald in the early 1920s are brought out more fully than ever before, including some never before noted. And the aesthetic strategies Fitzgerald uses - his imagery, symbols, and character contrasts - are shown to lead, in a very specific, preparatory way, to the conception of The Great Gatsby. The important influence of Conrad's earlier exploration of romantic illusion - in Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, and Heart of Darkness - is treated in a fascinating chapter that is also the definitive statement of this aspect of The Great Gatsby. The lengthiest section of the book, however, is devoted to the aesthetic strategies and multiple dimensions of Fitzgerald's art in The Great Gatsby, ranging from brilliant social satire of miniaturization to adaptive use of Greek and Christian myth, and is supplemented by an appendix that explores the many changes of conception and style that occurred as the novel was being written. A final chapter places The Great Gatsby in the distinctive culture of the American 1920s, and confirms that Fitzgerald's composition of the novel was the culmination of a large act of cultural assimilation, the final result of his steady and dramatic growth as an imaginative writer in the first half of the decade of the 1920s. The Achieving of The Great Gatsby is so consistently informative and perceptive that it prepares the way for a Variorum edition of The Great Gatsby. Lucidly written, and providing new enlargement of understanding of Fitzgerald in his testing period, it is an indispensable work for scholars of American literature, classroom teachers of The Great Gatsby, and Fitzgerald enthusiasts alike. - Dust jacket. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: Class Conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Claudia Durst Johnson, 2008 By marrying the disciplines of sociology and literature, the Social Issues in Literature series meets the need for materials supporting curriculum integration. Each title in this distinctive new series examines an important literary work through the lens of a major social issue. Focusing on the most-studied titles in high school curricula, each volume offers unique perspectives on both the work and the social issue that it explores. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Digested Read John Crace, 2005-12 Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions of Big Ideas, as he turns publishers' golden dream books into dross. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: Study Guide to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Intelligent Education, 2020-09-12 A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, widely considered to be the highest achievement of Fitzgerald’s career and a contender for the title of the “Great American Novel.” As the quintessential novel of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald’s work serves as both an exquisite portrait of the Roaring Twenties in America and a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. Acclaimed by generations of readers, the novel continues to embody the American spirit and the nation’s enduring admiration for self-made success stories. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Fitzgerald’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research. |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2021-01-03 I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, and by parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. After its publication in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews from literary critics and sold poorly. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. During World War II, the novel faced a critical re-examination and soon became a core part of most American high school curricula. Numerous stage and film adaptations followed in the subsequent decades. Modern scholars emphasise the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. As with other works by Fitzgerald, criticisms include allegations of antisemitism. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf! |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture David Bradshaw, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, 2008-04-15 The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essentialtexts and contexts of the modernist movement with the uniqueinsights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the studyof modernism. An essential resource for students and teachers of modernistliterature and culture Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the mostdistinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture,contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all thegenres of modernist writing and art Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature,from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Zora NealHurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Pays close attention to both British and Americanmodernism |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: The GREAT GATSBY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2017-09-02 THE GREAT GATSBY by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1896-1940 Large Print |
| f scott fitzgeralds the great gatsby: A Life in Letters F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2010-07-06 A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life. In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring and elegant authors. A Life in Letters is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald's letters -- many of them appearing in print for the first time. The fullness of the selection and the chronological arrangement make this collection the closest thing to an autobiography that Fitzgerald ever wrote. While many readers are familiar with Fitzgerald's legendary jazz age social life and his friendships with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, and other famous authors, few are aware of his writings about his life and his views on writing. Letters to his editor Maxwell Perkins illustrate the development of Fitzgerald's literary sensibility; those to his friend and competitor Ernest Hemingway reveal their difficult relationship. The most poignant letters here were written to his wife, Zelda, from the time of their courtship in Montgomery, Alabama, during World War I to her extended convalescence in a sanatorium near Asheville, North Carolina. Fitzgerald is by turns affectionate and proud in his letters to his daughter, Scottie, at college in the East while he was struggling in Hollywood. For readers who think primarily of Fitzgerald as a hard-drinking playboy for whom writing was effortless, these letters show his serious, painstaking concerns with creating realistic, durable art. |
Context - The Great Gatsby - AQA English Literature A-level
F. Scott Fitzgerald Born on September 24, 1896, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was named after his ancestor, Francis Scott Key, the author of the poem ‘Defence of Fort M’Henry’, the verse of …
The Great Gatsby - JSTOR
American colleges and universities The Great Gatsby is the great American novel. There are few introductory literature classes that do not include it, and if a student misses it there, he or she …
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby - Routledge
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has shaped America’s literary scene for more than half a century. It was a recognized landmark in American literature from its first publication, but …
Colour Symbolism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
In my analysis and discussion of the six colours, I will focus on what they symbolize in the context of The Great Gatsby by providing several examples of each colour and showing their …
chapter i - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
978-0-521-76620-3 — The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald , James L. W. West III Excerpt More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org The Great …
THE THEME AND THE NARRATOR OF 'THE GREAT GATSBY'
4 "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Poet of Borrowed Time," Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction, p. 295. Mr. Mizener, an acute reader of Fitzgerald, is well aware of Nick's moral involvement in …
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE …
The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald s masterpiece. The variorum text is based on multiple witnesses. These include the extant holograph of the novel and Fitzgerald s revised galley …
The Disillusionment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Dreams and Ideals in …
Abstract—In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the American economy ascended, bringing unprecedented levels of affluence to the nation. The chaos of World War I left America in a …
'The Great Gatsby' and the Transformations of Space-Time: …
The Great Gatshy and the Transformations of Space-Time: Fitzgerald's Modernist Narrative and the New Physics of Einstein Raymond M. Vince J- he problematic nature of space, time, and …
The Great Gatsby - Planet eBook
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book was published in Australia and is out of copyright there. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading, …
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE …
The Great Gatsby written in Fitzgerald s hand. The word manuscript refers to auto-graph drafts of other literary works written in Fitzgerald s hand. 3 Black and white facsimiles have appeared …
Social Class and Status in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby - DiVA
The Great Gatsby is no exception to that, as social class is present throughout the entire novel. Social class is not only present in the novel, but in many cases similarities can be found …
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving American Dream: The "Pursuit of ...
Carraway had claimed in The Great Gatsby, the dream, refigured in The Last Tycoon, is a recurring phenomenon in each phase, place, and guise of Fitzgerald's imagination of American …
THE ART OF NARRATION IN F SCOTT FITZGERALD'S THE …
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is so rich of themes and writing techniques that give it an avant-garde status not only in the American fiction but also in the universal...
The Great Gatsby and the Struggle for Wealth, Purity,
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel with a timeless story that is read by many for both scholastic benefits and for pleasure. It contains a story of romance, lies, betrayal, and …
Gatsby’s Green Light as a Traffic Signal - JSTOR
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of vehicles in The Great Gatsby constitutes more than just a symbolic motif: cars, trains, boats, and other means of transportation structure the plot, providing the …
Analysis on the Issue of Women Oppresssion in F. Scott …
The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the issue of women oppression in patriarchal society as its main. The story revolves around the social condition of New York and …
The Real Jay Gatsby: Max von Gerlach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and …
F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing, finally and most importantly, on the role he may have played in the compositional history of The Great Gatsby and the traces he may have left in the text.
Scott Fitzgerald's Fable of East and West - JSTOR
AFTER a brief revival, the novels of Scott Fitzgerald seem destined again for obscurity, labeled this time, by their most recent critics, as darkly pessimistic stud-ies of America's spiritual and …
Context - The Great Gatsby - AQA English Literature A-level
F. Scott Fitzgerald Born on September 24, 1896, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was named after his ancestor, Francis Scott Key, the author of the poem ‘Defence of Fort M’Henry’, the verse of …
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby : teacher's guide
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. Each lesson has four. homework assignments. In addition, we have provided suggested essay. information about the novel, the …
The Great Gatsby - JSTOR
American colleges and universities The Great Gatsby is the great American novel. There are few introductory literature classes that do not include it, and if a student misses it there, he or she …
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby - Routledge
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has shaped America’s literary scene for more than half a century. It was a recognized landmark in American literature from its first publication, but …
Colour Symbolism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
In my analysis and discussion of the six colours, I will focus on what they symbolize in the context of The Great Gatsby by providing several examples of each colour and showing their …
chapter i - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
978-0-521-76620-3 — The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald , James L. W. West III Excerpt More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org The Great …
THE THEME AND THE NARRATOR OF 'THE GREAT GATSBY'
4 "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Poet of Borrowed Time," Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction, p. 295. Mr. Mizener, an acute reader of Fitzgerald, is well aware of Nick's moral involvement in …
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF
The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald s masterpiece. The variorum text is based on multiple witnesses. These include the extant holograph of the novel and Fitzgerald s revised galley …
The Disillusionment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Dreams and Ideals in …
Abstract—In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the American economy ascended, bringing unprecedented levels of affluence to the nation. The chaos of World War I left America in a …
'The Great Gatsby' and the Transformations of Space-Time: Fitzgerald's …
The Great Gatshy and the Transformations of Space-Time: Fitzgerald's Modernist Narrative and the New Physics of Einstein Raymond M. Vince J- he problematic nature of space, time, and …
The Great Gatsby - Planet eBook
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book was published in Australia and is out of copyright there. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading, …
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF
The Great Gatsby written in Fitzgerald s hand. The word manuscript refers to auto-graph drafts of other literary works written in Fitzgerald s hand. 3 Black and white facsimiles have appeared …
Social Class and Status in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby - DiVA
The Great Gatsby is no exception to that, as social class is present throughout the entire novel. Social class is not only present in the novel, but in many cases similarities can be found …
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving American Dream: The "Pursuit of ...
Carraway had claimed in The Great Gatsby, the dream, refigured in The Last Tycoon, is a recurring phenomenon in each phase, place, and guise of Fitzgerald's imagination of …
THE ART OF NARRATION IN F SCOTT FITZGERALD'S THE GREAT GATSBY
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is so rich of themes and writing techniques that give it an avant-garde status not only in the American fiction but also in the universal...
The Great Gatsby and the Struggle for Wealth, Purity,
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel with a timeless story that is read by many for both scholastic benefits and for pleasure. It contains a story of romance, lies, betrayal, and …
Gatsby’s Green Light as a Traffic Signal - JSTOR
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of vehicles in The Great Gatsby constitutes more than just a symbolic motif: cars, trains, boats, and other means of transportation structure the plot, providing the …
Analysis on the Issue of Women Oppresssion in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s …
The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the issue of women oppression in patriarchal society as its main. The story revolves around the social condition of New York and …
The Real Jay Gatsby: Max von Gerlach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing, finally and most importantly, on the role he may have played in the compositional history of The Great Gatsby and the traces he may have left in the text.
Scott Fitzgerald's Fable of East and West - JSTOR
AFTER a brief revival, the novels of Scott Fitzgerald seem destined again for obscurity, labeled this time, by their most recent critics, as darkly pessimistic stud-ies of America's spiritual and …
