The Great Gatsby

 VINTAGE DECO

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Jazyk:	anglicky
Počet stran:	160
Formát:	12,9 x 19,7 cm
Nakladatel:	Vintage Classics
Vazba:	měkká

Cena:	231,00 Kč

• Anotace

  The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?
  
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  Review

  The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression. ― The Times
  
  Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true "business": "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty" ― The Times
  
  It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life ― Daily Telegraph
  
  The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight ― Mirror
  
  His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them all ― Los Angeles Times

  
  

  About the Author

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) is widely considered the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. He wrote many short stories and four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously.
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• Další informace

  ISBN/EAN:	9781784877088
  Rok vydání:	2022

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