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The Great Gatsby (A Cornell Edition) [Paperback]

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2006
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 180 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner; A Cornell Edition edition (2006)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00136YCIG
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2,411 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #450,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the major American writers of the twentieth century -- a figure whose life and works embodied powerful myths about our national dreams and aspirations. Fitzgerald was talented and perceptive, gifted with a lyrical style and a pitch-perfect ear for language. He lived his life as a romantic, equally capable of great dedication to his craft and reckless squandering of his artistic capital. He left us one sure masterpiece, The Great Gatsby; a near-masterpiece, Tender Is the Night; and a gathering of stories and essays that together capture the essence of the American experience. His writings are insightful and stylistically brilliant; today he is admired both as a social chronicler and a remarkably gifted artist.

Customer Reviews

Great story, interesting and complicated characters, and beautiful writing. Bookwyrm  |  464 reviewers made a similar statement
All of us read this book in either high school or college..years ago. Mary Jo Smith  |  264 reviewers made a similar statement
Even if you don't have time to read the whole book, just read the last page. William T. Vogt Jr.  |  264 reviewers made a similar statement
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461 of 500 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Decades later, still great but on different terms. August 24, 2001
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Having reread this book for the first time in 20 years, I can confirm that there's a reason that it's considered one of the very best American novels. However, my reaction to the story was different than when I first read it in high school. I recall that back then I was hoping that Daisy and Gatsby's love story would ultimately yield a happy ending. Now, I found them both to be such shallow creatures that they inspired no pity. While I considered the characters to be emotionally stunted, that dooesn't mean I was not impressed with Fitzergerald's skillful rendering. As in most forms of art, in literature it is more difficult to accurately and interestingly portray nothingness than to describe a richly endowed subject. At this more cynical age, I found Daisy to be a remarkable emotional void, and Gatsby's quest to pour all of his hopes and dreams into such a shallow cauldron only confirmed his own vapidity. One thing that hasn't changed in all these years is my amazement at Fitzgerald's ability to set a scene. His descriptive passages are truly poetic, and his command of word choice in unparalleled. All this made for a stimulating and delightful read.
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160 of 177 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's difficult to give any even-handed critique F. Scott Fitzgerald's standard-setting Jazz Age novel since it was required reading for most of us in high school. However, if you come back to it as a full-fledged adult, you'll find that the story still resonates but more like a just-polished cameo piece from a forgotten time. 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 by Nick Carraway, Gatsby's modest Long Island neighbor who becomes his most trusted confidante. Nick is responsible for reuniting the lovers who both have come to different points in their lives five years after their aborted romance. Now a solitary figure in his luxurious mansion, Gatsby is a newly wealthy man who accumulated his fortunes through dubious means. Daisy, on the other hand, has always led a life of privilege and could not let love stand in the way of her comfortable existence. She married Tom Buchanan for that sole purpose. With Gatsby's ambition spurred by his love for Daisy, he rekindles his romance with Daisy, as Tom carries on carelessly with an auto mechanic's grasping wife. Nick himself gets caught up in the jet set trappings and has a relationship with Jordan Baker, a young golf pro.

These characters are inevitably led on a collision course that exposes the hypocrisy of the rich, the falsity of a love undeserving and the transience of individuals on this earth. The strength of Fitzgerald's treatment comes from the lyrical prose he provides to illuminate these themes. Not a word is wasted, and the author's economical handling of such a potentially complex plot is a technique I wish were more frequently replicated today. Most of all, I simply enjoy the book because it does not portend a greater significance eighty years later. It is a classic tale that provides vibrancy and texture to a bygone era. It is well worth re-reading, especially at such a bargain price.
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81 of 91 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Monument in Audio Book History September 28, 2005
Format:Audio CD
Scott Fitzgerald, a monumental talent who only occasionally got things working right, made Gatsby great by the extraordinary invention of Nick Carraway. Carraway as narrator provided the exact perfect pitch: more awestruck than he would admit, more moral than it was fashionable to reveal -- always objective and distanced and subtle and charming, genuinely decent and impeccably well mannered, a little dangerously smitten himself by the lovely but corrupt Jordan Baker.

Alexander Scourby, one of the greatest reading voices of his era (overlapping Fitzgerald's enough to know and feel it all) here does Carraway in a way that cannot, therefore, again be quite equalled. Imagine having a recording of a great contemporary actor reading Ahab's speeches in Moby Dick, and one begins to appreciate the gift that we only now have in recorded sound, something we are already quite casual about. But there is much more here than historical accuracy. Scourby's voice wraps around every phrase of Fitzgeral's text with both an actor's professionalism and a good reader's care, making it not only uncannily his own monument but also a monument in audio book history. It sets the bar, and anyone interested in the recorded voice as an art form should own this for repeated learning.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderfully written
I really enjoyed reading this amazing classic novel. It was a beautifully written story even if its a bit tragic as well. I'm glad I took the time to read it.
Published 15 minutes ago by Maggie
5.0 out of 5 stars Still as good today
Like many educated in America, I first read this book years ago. Reading it again today, I realized how much I have changed in those intervening years. Read more
Published 1 hour ago by Thardy1900
1.0 out of 5 stars Did not enjoy this book
This story just seemed to drag on and on and on. Planned to see the movie after reading, but didn't because I didn't enjoy the story.
Published 2 hours ago by Stephanie Benson
5.0 out of 5 stars Gatsby is great
I want to write a review but feel a little overwhelmed. Gastby ... the great. Yeah. That about sums it up. Era writing. Creative plot. Flare and color. Sigh.... Read more
Published 4 hours ago by Annette Mackey
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the movie!
It was great to reread this wonderful novel. Fitzgerald has a gift for describing the life of affluence on Long Island. Read more
Published 6 hours ago by Mom
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books
Originally read the story in high school and was intrigued. It's one of the few books that everyone in class read all the way through. F. Read more
Published 7 hours ago by Kelly Weyer
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a classic for a reason!
This book is a must read for anyone who enjoys great writing. F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of America's greatest authors.
Published 16 hours ago by Mary Sulgrove
4.0 out of 5 stars Means something now...
I read this book in high school, and didn't truly grasp the beautiful words of Fitzgerald. This novel is a true classic whether you read it at 15 or 35.
Published 17 hours ago by Kindlemusicaddict
4.0 out of 5 stars Always a Favorite
A story of a love so powerful that it shaped a man, this story is a glittery representation of the roaring 20's and the carelessness of wealth. Read more
Published 18 hours ago by Stacey C. Force
5.0 out of 5 stars awesome
I get a bunch of compliments on this! It is a great product! Will definitely get again, and again! Thanks
Published 19 hours ago by Katie Buchholz
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