The Great Gatsby
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I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1923).The first step American fiction has taken since Henry James. T. S. Eliot.I hope shell be a fool -- thats the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby.Show me a hero, and Ill write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald.One of the most important works in American literature - and, to many, the great American novel. - Time.This slim novel of fewer than 50,000 words, a story of secret visions and gaudy revels, of sudden violence and constant envy, shimmers with a magic that readers have long recognised. Sarah Churchwell, The Guardian.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeralds masterpiece is perhaps The Great American Novel, and its protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is regarded as one of the truly mythic creations in American culture. It is, as Fitzgerald hoped, something new, something extraordinary. The novel is set in Long Island, during the enthusiasm, abandon, and free-flowing illegal liquor of the Jazz Age, a term coined by Fitzgerald in his earlier collection, Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald himself was the quintessential chronicler of The Roaring Twenties.The handsome millionaire Jay Gatsby seems to have everything, but where did his wealth come from, and what is he still in search of? Gatsbys life mirrors Fitzgeralds: they both fell in love, and then struggled to establish themselves financially to prove themselves worthy. Fitzgerald wrote Show me a hero, and Ill write you a tragedy. Gatsby was a tragic hero, much like his creator.The Great Gatsby was, initially, neither a critical nor commercial success; it was only appreciated after Fitzgeralds early death. This incandescent and mag
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