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The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition Classic Edition
Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Author)

ISBN: 0684830426 ISBN-13: 9780684830421
Publisher: Scribner Book Company

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 1996
Annotation: The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' 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's "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 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 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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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Friendship

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 96016596

Lexile Measure: 1010(Not Available)

Series: Scribner Classics

Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.31" W x 9.55" L (0.80 lbs) 176 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1920's
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation - New York

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Review Citations: Newsweek 12/17/2007 pg. 14
Village Voice 12/03/2008 pg. 39
Newsweek 08/09/2010 pg. 54

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 708
Reading Level: 7.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0

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Publisher Description:
A true classic of twentieth-century literature--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously 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 noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

Contributor Bio(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott: - F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's novels include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.

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