- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions (2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 185326041X
- ISBN-13: 978-1853260414
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.2 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 100 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (814 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #471,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Read the first page
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Read the first page
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Pretty Much Perfect.,
By Erin (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
Fitzgerald's simple, elegant prose in this masterpiece is unmatched in terms of its beauty. The story is wonderful, the characters splendid. It's a love story, but it isn't a fluffy love story - it's ethereal, haunting, a little sobering, but that doesn't take away from its magic. An abolutely superb work.
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WHY THE HELL DO SCHOOLS USE THIS BOOK,
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This review is from: The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
This book is a perfect example why kids don't like to read or find it boring. I read this in high school and was turned off by books.
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Small but powerful book,
By Eric L. Neggilfan (Montreal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
By now, there's little dispute about "Gatsby" being the classic that it is. And if you're not a fan, if nothing else, you didn't have to invest a great amount of time inthe book, for it is not long. But the character of Jay Gatsby is quite unique. Jay Gatsby loves without judgment, without conquest or need. The sad irony is that the object of such noble sentiment is a shallow yet benign Daisy, a lethargic, bored, and wealthy philistine. Gatsby is not a wise hero, otherwise this novel would be pedantic and obvious. Gatsby shares the shallowness of modern society, and its belief system of material possession. Gatsby is, simply put, 'unaffected', pure, a blind unabashed dreamer. Jay and his friends, all rather crass and shallow except for our narrator and moral moderator, Nick Calloway, go back and forth between cocktail parties, driving under T.J Eckleberg's Eyes, an abandoned billboard optometry advertisement. Themes of T.S. Eliot's hauntingly prophetic Wasteland are echoed. When a drunken night of obliviousness ends in the death of Tom Buchanan's (a fierce egoist and staunch 'realist') mistress, the moral fiber of all those involved break down, and finger's begin to twitch and point.This book is jam-packed with insight about not only the 1920s, but the human condition in general. Filled with metaphors and poetic writing, Fitzgerald has given us one remarkable piece of literature for the ages. KATZENJAMMER by Jackson McCrae and CATCHER IN THE RYE by Salinger
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