Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald
First Published: 1920
Number of Pages: 186
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
“There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life…. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.”
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
–first edition jacket
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Also contained in:
– [The Fitzgerald Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468551W/The_Fitzgerald_Reader)
– [Three Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468557W)
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