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Everybody who is anybody is seen at Jay Gatsby’s glittering parties. Day and night his mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby – young, handsome, fabulously rich – always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
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It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties and waits for her to appear. When s he does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbour Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. Perry Freeman, Amazon.com
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st thus. Bound in full soft limp leather binding (vegetable tanned Buffalo calf sourced from "fallen animals" in India, with "Luggage label" style leather bookmark attached). Decorative grey endpapers designed by Amberg. Minor handling marks to cover where bookmark & leather tie have pushed into the cover. Limited to 1000 copies only. An unread copy. No dustwrapper as issued. Seller Inventory # 006537
Book Description fine. Condition: Very Good. Penguin Classics New edition, designed by Bill Amberg. Soft cover in book box. Bound in full soft (limp) leather (vegetable tanned buffalo calf sourced from 'fallen animals' in India), with leather bookmark in form of a luggage label. Grey decorative endpapers designed by Amberg. With enclosed leaflet bearing text on the binding by Amberg. Placed in tissue paper inside a fawn paper-covered box, with publisher's wrap-around band. 195pp. Very Good+. Book is fine apart from gift inscription to half-title. Very Nice, Pictures available. Seller Inventory # 27640