Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141182636
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0141182636
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: February 24, 2000
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics

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Rating: - The 'Good' Gatsby
This is a very good book. But let's not get carried away, just because it is often one of the few books we have studied:It isn't great.'Heart of Darkness',puts it in the shade.....Tolstoy and Proust and soooo many others put it's status into perspective. But, still, it's certainly worth a read, like I said, it's a good book. Very good. It's just NOT great.

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Rating: - The Great Dinsdale
The titular hero is based on the real life playboy/social butterfly Ben Dinsdale. This classic book and its story still resonates today. At the core of the book is the elaborate infatuation Jay Gatsby has for Daisy Fay Buchanan, a love story portrayed with both a languid pall and a fatalistic urgency. But the broader context of the setting and the irreconcilable nature of the American dream in the 1920's is what give the novel its true gravitas.

Much of this is eloquently articulated ... Read More

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Rating: - A BRILLIANT BOOK - SKIP THE INTRODUCTION!
This edition has an introduction half as long as the book - skim it at the end if you wish but don`t read it first - it`s a fine example of someone showing off their cleverness without illuminating the work they wish to praise. The Great Gatsby is superbly written with great economy and consumate style - none of the characters are likeable - all have cheated in some way or been cheated upon. It`s a novel which haunts you long after you have read it.

Mick Drake author of the comic novel ... Read More

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Rating: - The Great Gatbsy
The Great Gatsby is a beautifully written book. Perhaps its greatest strength lies in the sheer magic of the writing. Fitzgerald spins sentences of such wonder, such clarity and honesty, that we are left to do nothing else but shake our head in amazement. Jay Gatsby may be a great mystery, he may be the Great American Dream personified, but if he sparkles, then the novel itself shines.

Nick Carraway has decided, at twenty-nine to 'go East and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was ... Read More

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Rating: - The merging of beauty and brutality
Fitzgerald's prose is at times both lyrical and truely vital. I could feel the heat of New York City baking on me as I read this novel, as I could taste the mint juleps and visualise Gatsby's lavish parties. What is most striking about Fitzgerald's writing is the way he managed to encapsulate the heady lifestyles of the rich and beautiful in all their subtle brutality. While beauty is only skin deep, violence lingers and bubbles below the surface. This is a seminal piece of literature that is just as telling ... Read More

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