Great Gatsby Illustrated

No cover — F. Scott Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby Illustrated (2021, Independently Published)

English language

Published 2021 by Independently Published.

ISBN:: 979-8-5227-5426-6

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.

"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again."

It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and …

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.

"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again."

It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.

It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.

--first edition jacket

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Rain's Reading Log reviewed The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I just realized today is my birthday”

4 stars

When was first mandated to read this in the 9th Grade my 14 year old brain brain understood the story even if I did not get it (even with the English teacher over explaining everything). Though as I have gotten older this story really set in and I appreciated what it had to say along with how it said it. While I don't necessarily agree that this is one of the best stories every told like many all time classics lists would leave you to believe it is defiantly worth a read. Great characters, a interesting setting, and even a really fun movie adaption if that is your speed.

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August 23