The Great Gatsby
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald ; preface by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Contributors: Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph, 1931-
Edition: printing (16)
Publisher: Scribner Classics
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780684830421
Copyright date: 1925, 1953. Editorial material 1991, 1992. Jacket 1996.
Subjects: Traffic accidents -- Fiction; First loves -- Fiction; Rich people -- Fiction; Mistresses -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction; Long Island (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T.S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H.L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald'd "best work" thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth century literature.

This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of The Great Gatsby, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and authorized by the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first edition of The Great Gatsby contained many errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule, and subsequent editions introduced further departures from the author's intentions. This critical edition draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and corrections, to restore the text to its original form. It is The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it.
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