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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2016 |
| Seiten | 256 |
| Format | 13,0 x 20,0 x 1,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 215 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Evergreens |
| ISBN-10 | 1847496148 |
| EAN | 9781847496140 |
| Bestell-Nr | 84749614UA |
Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the "Jazz Age", as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.
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It seems to me the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James. TS Eliot
