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Synopsis
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
Incredulous is one of 606 words defined in this edition. Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in 1925 with a vocabulary as precise as his prose is beautiful, and a reader who skims past supercilious, meretricious, or somnambulism loses part of what makes the sentences work. This Expanded Student Vocabulary Edition gives you the complete novel with every one of those words defined on the page where it appears.
What's inside. The full, unabridged text of The Great Gatsby, plus Fitzgerald's short story Winter Dreams, the Gatsby precursor he called "a sort of first draft of the Gatsby idea." Every vocabulary word is bolded in the text and footnoted the first time it appears, defined in the sense the author uses it, not an exhaustive dictionary entry. Words like jaunty, prodigal, elude, obscure, wistful, and skeptic are there, and 600 more. A complete alphabetical glossary at the back lets you find any word again after you have finished reading.
What's also inside. An Academic Supplement built for the classroom: how to build and retain vocabulary, the historical and cultural context of the novel, Fitzgerald's use of complex narration, a writing exercise in his style, and a full lesson on Winter Dreams.
What's not inside. No plot summary. No page-cluttering commentary. No chapter questions to grind through. Just the novel as Fitzgerald wrote it, with the vocabulary handled so nothing slows you down.
Two editions: how to choose. If you already own a copy of The Great Gatsby and want the vocabulary alone, our Honors Vocabulary Companion is the lighter, lower-cost path: definitions only, built to sit beside any edition you already own. If you want the novel and the definitions together, with every word footnoted on the page where it appears, this is the edition to buy.
Who it's for. Honors and AP English students. Anyone preparing for the SAT or ACT. ESL and EFL learners working toward TOEFL or IELTS. Homeschool families and classroom teachers. And anyone who wants to read Fitzgerald with nothing lost.
Part of the Student Vocabulary Editions series: the vocabulary of the classics. Start here, where the green light still burns at the end of the dock.
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