The Great Gatsby

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

ISBN 10: 0684801523 / ISBN 13: 9780684801520

Verlag: Scribner, 1995

Beschreibung

May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages. paperback.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 884716

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Great Gatsby
• Verlag: Scribner
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0684801523
• ISBN-13: 9780684801520
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time between New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. For his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, Fitzgerald stands out as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.