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They wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. | |
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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. All right ... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. | |
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▾Common Knowledge (short form) | Canonical title | The Great Gatsby | | Original publication date | 1925 | | People/Characters | Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Jay Gatsby, James Gatz, Tom Buchanan (show all 18), George Wilson, Myrtle Wilson, Catherine, Chester McKee, Meyer Wolfsheim, Lucille McKee, Owl-eyes, Ewing Klipspringer, Pammy Buchanan, Henry C. Gatz, Michaelis, Dan Cody | | Important places | New York, New York, USA, Long Island, New York, USA, West Egg, Long Island, New York, USA, East Egg, Long Island, New York, USA, North Shore, Long Island, New York, USA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (show all 8), North Dakota, USA, Minnesota, USA | | Important events | World War I, Prohibition | | Awards and honors | Waterstones Books of the Century (1997, No 12), Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection, BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43), The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Board's List, 2), The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Reader's List, 12), Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (1) (show all 12), The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003), Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits (22), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008 Edition), Guardian 1000 (Love), Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List (2009, No. 18), The Ten Greatest Books of All Time - TIME (2007) | | Epigraph | They wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
&n... (show all)bsp;I must have you!"
—Thomas Parke D'Invilliers | | Dedication | ONCE AGAIN
TO
ZELDA | | First words | In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. | | Quotations | Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead., All right ... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. , This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort,... (show all) of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight., So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. | | Last words | (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. | | Blurbers | Dickey, James | | Description | The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy so... (show all)ared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamor of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it. |
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The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamor of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it. | |
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▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0684801523, Paperback)
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule. Subsequent printings introduced further departures from the author's words. This edition, based on the Cambridge critical text, restores all the language of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Drawing on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and corrections, this is the authorized text -- The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) (see all 5 descriptions) ▾Open Shelves Classification The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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