Download or read book A Contextualised Analysis of F Scott Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby The Beautiful and Damned and This Side of Paradise written by Piers Henriques and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: Distinction, City of Bath College, language: English, abstract: Francis Scott Fitzgerald is now considered to be one of the seminal figureheads for contemporary American literature. He inspired contemporaries around him such as Ernest Hemingway, T.S Eliot and later would be revered by 20th and 21st century writers, such as Hunter S. Thompson: who once claimed that to learn to use a typewriter, he would retype the Great Gatsby over and over. He brought life to the self coined "Jazz Age" of writers; and with this, he brought a voice to a nation writing their own, comparably short, artistic histories. Fitzgerald would never know of his posthumous wealth of success, and, during his transient life, he had a tortuous relationship with his public persona, those around him and the influence that alcohol had on his life. These things indelibly marked most of his writings, and can be clearly seen in many aspects of his novels. This paper will identify and analyse the transcriptions, of the man behind the exquisite writing style, and bring light to the greater meanings that can be found within his first three novels: This Side of Paradise (1920), Beautiful and Damned (1922) and Great Gatsby (1925).
Download or read book F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical portrayal of love and violence during the Twenties.
Download or read book F Scott Fitzgerald Trimalchio written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition ever published of Trimalchio, original version of Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby.
Download or read book The Great Gatsby annotated written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and veteran of the Great War from the Midwest.who serves as the novel's narrator.takes a job in New York as a bond salesman. He rents a small house on Long Island, in the fictional village of West Egg, next door to the lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who holds extravagant parties but does not participate in them. Nick drives around the bay to East Egg for dinner at the home of his cousin, Daisy Fay Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a college acquaintance of Nick's. They introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, an attractive, cynical young golfer with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship.
Download or read book The Great Gatsby Annotated written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick's next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg--he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick's at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom's marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose.As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby's legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone "old sport." Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby's extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife's relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans' house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal--his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby's car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom's lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle's husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself.
Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age. Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". After the war, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to try and entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion. Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald's succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits. Fitzgerald's glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. 'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' -Sunday Times, Books of the Century 'More than an American classic; it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream' -The Guardian 'An unquiet masterpiece whose mystery never fails to exert its power' -Observer, The 100 Best Novels in English 'Fitzgerald's mythologizing of the social whirl, his casting of American types as archetypes, his framing of psychology as destiny, of style as divine grace, captured its moment. He offered glamour along with compassion and consolation, a sense of sad magic along with the expansive glow of romance.' -The New Yorker
Download or read book The great Gatsby Tender is the night This side of paradise The beautiful and damned The last tycoon written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 1998 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glittering parties Gatsby gives at his superb Long Island home are talked of far and wide: nearly everyone of renown samples his fabulous hospitality. But what do they know of him? He seems to be a man without a background, without history; whose eyes are always searching the glitter and razzmatazz for something... someone though no one knows who or what. None of the socialites can fathom him. But as his tragic story unfolds, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed. 'Fitzgerald opens up rich vistas on no less a problem than what might be involved, what might be at stake, in trying to see, and write, America itself' Tony Tanner
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Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life, Gatsby is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon, this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for - in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream - Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality. Like Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and, incomplete at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '. 'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' John Carey, Sunday Times Books of the Century
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to F Scott Fitzgerald written by Ruth Prigozy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The introduction traces Fitzgerald's career as a literary and public figure, and examines the extent to which public recognition has affected his reputation among scholars, critics, and general readers over the past sixty years. This is the only volume that offers undergraduates, graduates and general readers a full account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further exploration of his work. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Fitzgerald, F, Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Criticism and interpretation Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Download or read book The Great Gatsby Annotated written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new American History Edition of The Great Gatsby features a fresh analysis of the novel and an Introduction by the Editors as well as curated links to resources for the reader, which include biographies, bibliographies, a chronology of Fitzgerald's life and works, archives and special collections dedicated to Fitzgerald, audio files of the author reading, and recently discovered works. The cover of this edition features the original Francis Cugat painting that appeared on the first edition in 1925. This new edition is also available in a large-print paperback and for Kindle. Living on Long Island in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald began planning what would become his magnum opus, The Great Gatsby. At the time Fitzgerald hoped it would solidify his reputation as a serious novelist. First published in April 1925, Fitzgerald's novel garnered decidedly mixed reviews, and it did not sell well--not even as well as his previous two novels. At the time of its original publication, the harshest critics felt it was merely a literary confection--well written, but unconvincing. In the 1920's American readers were not ready for Fitzgerald's criticisms of contemporary society of the period, or his portrayal of narratives central to American beliefs and culture. Among other things, the novel portrays the illusory nature of self-invention, the drive for unattainable material wealth, and the anti-immigrant sentiment inherent in American society across the decades. Fitzgerald died in 1940; he never knew The Great Gatsby would become one of the most important books in the English language. At the time many critics thought of The Great Gatsby as a minor period piece; however, with the distance of time, readers have come to see the strong thematic undercurrents in the novel that reveal tensions at the heart of American society. In the hedonism of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald saw the inevitable disillusionment at the core of the American dream as well as the loss of optimism. What once seemed like a failed novel, The Great Gatsby is now a cultural category. It's been adapted for ballet, film, games, opera, radio, television, and theater and by other works of literature. What early critics saw as a period piece has always been about the central narratives of America itself--narratives about belonging, upward mobility, self-invention, what it means to be "American" vis-à-vis ethnicity and race, anxieties about immigration, and the many limitations imposed on women. Fitzgerald also shows us the destruction that accompanies these narratives--something for which audiences were not yet ready during Fitzgerald's lifetime. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended Princeton University before leaving in 1917 to join the army. He is said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he characterized as "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Among his works were five novels, six volumes of short stories as well as a selection of autobiographical pieces.
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Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922.
Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married
Download or read book The Great Gatsby Annotated written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written via American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a forged of characters living within the fictional cities of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island within the summer of 1922The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written via American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a forged of characters living within the fictional cities of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island within the summer of 1922The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written via American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a forged of characters living within the fictional cities of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island within the summer of 1922The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written via American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a forged of characters living within the fictional cities of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island within the summer of 1922The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written via American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a forged of characters living within the fictional cities of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island within the summer of 1922
Download or read book The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald written by F Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1925-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Here is the complete text of the novel with the followings annotations: * Historical context: The Great Gatsby brilliantly invokes The ambience of The Jazz Age (a phrase coined by Fitzgerald) or the Roaring Twenties. The economic boom of postwar America, the new jazz music, and also also the free - flowing illegal liquor were all part of the boom. Literary analysis: "The Great Gatsby" is a glance at the lives of Americans, especially those that reside on the East Coast. It's a masterful depiction of the battle between "old money" depicted by Daisy and Tom Buchanan and the vulgar and crazy presentation of wealth as represented by Jay Gatsby. *Biographical Information: Best Works of F Scott Fitzgerald Here are some of the prominent works of the American author: 1. This Side of Paradise, 1920 2. The Beautiful and Damned (1922) 3. The Great Gatsby (1925) 4. Tender Is the Night (1934)
