Blog
Save
Email
Print
ShareIn 1922, F.
See also:
Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known.
A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology.
Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings.
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.
It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....
And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
For more information about the title The Great Gatsby, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
Why We Love: The Nature And Chemistry Of Romantic Love — "If you want flashes and particular experiences of romantic love, read novels. If you want to understand this central quality of human nature to its ... > read more
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America — The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales."To produce a mighty book, you must ... > read more
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl — The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's ... > read more
Your Portable Empire: How to Make Money Anywhere While Doing What You Love — Praise for Your Portable Empire "In a sea of snake oil and get-rich-quick nonsense about fast money on the Internet from people who haven't really ... > read moreRecommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
more 