The Great Gatsby

Inbunden bok. Modernista. 2024. 159 sidor.

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#2 AFTER JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES ON MODERN LIBRARY'S LIST OF THE 100 BEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOVELS IN THE 20TH CENTURY.

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'.

Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties.

But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman he has waited for all his life. Little does he know that his infatuation will lead to tragedy and end in murder.

Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.


AV F. SCOTT FITZGERALD: Den store Gatsby (En man utan skrupler) / Natten är ljuv / Sammanbrottet / Den siste magnaten / En skymt av paradiset / Den sista skönheten / Den charmiska flapper (Den populära flappern).


PÅ ORIGINALSPRÅK

ROMANER: This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned / The great Gatsby / The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (kortroman) / The Great Gatsby / Tender Is the Night / The Last Tycoon / The crack-up (essäer).

NOVELLER: Myra meets his family / Benediction / The jelly-bean / The offshore pirate / Flappers and philosophers (novellsamling) / Bernice bobs her hair / May day / The ice palace / The curious case of Benjamin Button / Winter Dreams / Absolution / The Rich Boy / Tales of the jazz age (novellsamling) / The popular girl / All the sad young men (novellsamling) / At your age / The last of the belles / Babylon Revisited / The rubber check / Taps at reveille (novellsamling) / Taps at reveille (novellsamling) / The apprentice fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald : 1909-1917 (novellsamling) / Afternoon of an author : a selection of uncollected stories and essays.

LYRIK: Poems 1911-1940.

DRAMATIK: The vegetable.

ÖVRIGT: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.