The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Harold Bloom (ed.) Illustrator: NA: The Great Gatsby: (Viva Modern Critical Interpretations) Viva Books 2007 ISBN: 9788130906454

New Softcover NA The Great Gatsby (1925) was the third novel published by F. Scott Fitzgerald when he was still in twenties. Produced at a time when America was in the midst of the roaring twenties, the book takes a close look at money, class structure, and the capitalist system. Transforming from one who had been only an observer of the rich to a man of opulence himself, Gatsby becomes an incarnation of the romanticized American Dream. Yet, unsuccessful, since that dream is attained through unethical methods and is unsuccessful in its final quest, its very value becomes meaningless and ultimately tragic. . . . in the very attempt to narrate GatsbyaEUR s story Nick reenacts what he takes to be the central action of that story aEUR" the individual imaginationaEUR s effort to equal the absolute nature (by producing an absolute image) of Desire, in effect, the imaginationaEUR s attempt to become God. . . . Fitzgerald chose a story with a history to show that time and time again histroy stacks the odds against survival of human aspiration. He then set about demonstrating its immortality. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William FaulkneraEUR s The Sound and the Fury and Don DelilloaEUR s White Noise. Contents: Introduction aEURc The Great Gatsby: Two Versions of the Hero aEURc Gatsby and the Failure of the Omniscient "I" aEURc Gatsby and John Keats: Another Version aEURc The Waste Land Myth and Symbols in The Great Gatsby aEURc Compensating Visions: The Great Gatsby aEURc The Great Gatsby: FitzgeraldaEUR s Opulent Synthesis (1925) aEURc Individualism Reconsidered aEURc "A World Complete In ItselfaEUR : GatsbyaEUR s Elegiac Narration aEURc "An Elusive Rhythm": The Great Gatsby Reclaims Troilus and Criseyde aEURc Implying Authors in The Great Gatsby aEURc CarrawayaEUR s Complaint aEURc Possession in The Great Gatsby aEURc Chronology aEURc Contributors Printed Pages: 238. First edition

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TREDELL, NICOLAS. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby. Palgrave Macmillan. 1997.. Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 9781874166672
Paperback, 192pp., This listing is a new book, a title currently in-print which we order directly and immediately from the publisher. F. Scott Fitzgerald has become something of a defining figure of the twenties - the decade he so famously described as 'The Jazz Age'. In <EM>The Great Gatsby</EM>, Fitzgerald's writing is at its finest, exposing a society's tendency towards decadence and moral collapse through a decade of hedonism. Regarded as the most searching and tightly written of his novels, <EM>The Great Gatsby</EM> was the work that assured Fitzgerald's place amongst the major writers of the twentieth century. <BR><BR>In this Readers' Guide, Nicolas Tredell introduces and sets in context the key critical debates surrounding a novel about which more critical material exists than any other work of American fiction. The extracts and essays included here reflect on <EM>The Great Gatsby</EM>'s place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques, and explore the influence of the work on later American writings. Considering secondary sources from the Twenties to the present, the Guide offers readers an invaluable resource for the study of this complex rendering of a moment in American history..

PB, NEAR FINE.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Catsby; Novell; Geschichte; Erzählung Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Catsby, New York: Collier Books 1986

182 S. 18 cm kart. auf dem Vorsatz und wenig im Buch wurde geschrieben, die Seiten sind altersbedingt gebräunt, Einbandkanten teils bestoßen, 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; nd Thomas Wolfe haiied it as Fitzgerald's "best work" so far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his loveforthe beautifui Daisy Buchanan, f lavish parties in West Egg, 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 of 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 Gafsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. (vom Buchrücken) Bei einem eingefügten Bild handelt es sich um das eingescannte Originalbuch.<br> Bei Bestellungen Werktags bis 11,30 Uhr erfolgt der Versand in der Regel noch am selben Tag, <br>ansonsten am folgenden Werktag.<br>

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F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby: The Authorized Text. London, UK: See notes, 1996
The publication of "The Great Gatsby" in 1925 established F. Scott Fitzgerald's reputation both as a major novelist and as chief chronicler of the Jazz Age. Yet, until now, there has been no definitive edition of the novel exactly as it was written by Fitzgerald. From its first printing onwards, the text has been subject to rigorous house-styling that has distorted the characteristic rhythms and structure of the author's sentences. This critical edition draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, together with Fitzgerald's subsequent revisions to key passages, to provide the first authoritative text of "The Great Gatsby". ~~~ Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald; Binding material: Paper; Binding state: Original binding; Class: Mass-market paperback; Condition: Fine; Edition: 4th (reprint); Editor(s): Matthew J. Bruccoli; Jacket condition: Not applicable; Language: English; Pages: 202; Publication year: 1996; Publisher: Abacus/Little, Brown & Company; Size: Octavo..

4th (reprint), See notes, Octavo, Fine

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