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Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1438114540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents critical essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-13
Total Pages: 166
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in the 1920's Jazz Age on Long Island, The Great Gatsby chronicles narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. First published in 1925, the book has enthralled generations of readers and is considered one of the greatest American novels.
Author: Ernest H. Lockridge, Ph.d.
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781484945438
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"You see, but you do not observe." Holmes to Doctor WatsonAN OPTICAL ILLUSION CALLED THE GREAT GATSBY presumes to "observe" what Fitzgerald meant when in 1924 he excitedly wrote a friend that The Great Gatsby (published 1925) was "a new thinking out of the idea of illusion." The precise nature of Fitzgerald's illusion-making—its technique or léger-de-main, and its centrality to the novel as a whole—remains more or less a mystery to this day. Small wonder the author complained following his novel's appearance that “of all the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the slightest idea what the book was about.” Since the novel's publication in 1925, readers, in particular those luckless enough to have been "taught the novel" in colleges and universities, have been indoctrinated into believing THE GREAT GATSBY to be little more than an embodiment of a fantasy (not mentioned anywhere in the novel, itself) called "The American Dream." The novel Fitzgerald actually wrote is infinitely more profound, interesting and universal. GATSBY is most certainly "Great." A recent list of "top-100-novels" ranked it #1. Readers and critics alike consider it the major contender for yet another fantasy or illusion, "The Great American Novel." And, now girding its loins against a mindless Hollywood extravaganza bearing its name, starring some drop-dead cutie named Leonardo butchering the title role, THE GREAT GATSBY has been apotheosized into a NEW YORK TIMES best-seller in fiction. High time to "observe" the drop-dead wonderful book F.Scott Fitzgerald was putting on the page some four score and ten years ago.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-09-08
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780521402392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime." "This edition of All the Sad Young Men is the first of the short-fiction collections in the Cambridge edition to be based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, historical notes, a textual apparatus, illustrations, and appendixes."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Michael North
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780195173567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCamera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses. For the avant-garde, the challenges of the new media were the modern in its most concentrated form, but even for aesthetically unadventurous writers they constituted an element of modern experience that could hardly be ignored.Camera Works thus traces some of the more utopian projects of the transatlantic avant-garde, including the Readie machine of Bob Brown, which was to turn stories and poems into strips of linguistic film. The influence of photography and film on the avant-garde is traced from the early days of Camera Work, through the enthusiasm of Eugene Jolas and the contributors to his magazine transition, to the crisis created by the introduction of sound in the late 1920s.Subsequent chapters describe the entirely new kind of sensory enjoyment brought into modern American fiction by the new media. What Fitzgerald calls "spectroscopic gayety," the enjoyable disorientation of the senses by machine perception, turns out to be a powerful force in much American fiction. The revolutionary possibilities of this new spectatorship and its limitations are pursued through a number of examples, including Dos Passos, James Weldon Johnson, and Hemingway. Together, these chapters offer a new and substantially different account of the relationship between modern American literature and the mediatized society of the early twentieth century.With a comprehensive introduction and detailed particular readings, Camera Works substantiates a new understanding of the formal and historical bases of modernism. It argues that when modern literature and art respond to modernity, on a formal level, they are responding to the intervention of technology in the transmission of meaning, an intervention that unsettles all the terms in the essential relationship of human consciousness to the world of phenomena.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Modernista
Published: 2024-02-27
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9180946194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK» ›The Sensible Thing‹ « is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in 1924. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His legendary marriage to Zelda Montgomery, along with their acquaintances with notable figures such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and their lifestyle in 1920s Paris, has become iconic. A master of the short story genre, it is logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].
Author: Laura Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 039956358X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventure in a memoir that "pushes literary boundaries" (The Atlantic) At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiancé, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. Laura wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge. Barbara Newhall Follett was a free-spirited trailblazer who published her first novel at 11, enlisted as a deck hand on a boat bound for the south China seas at 15 and was one of the first women to hike the Appalachian trail. Then in December 1939, when she was not much older than Laura, she walked out of her apartment on a quiet tree-lined street in Brookline, leaving behind a fraying marriage, and vanished without a trace. Obsessed by her story, Laura set off to find out what had happened. The Art of Vanishing is a riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marriage and convention that asks deep and uncomfortable questions: Why do we give up on our childhood dreams? Is marriage a golden noose? Must we find ourselves in the same row houses with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? Searingly honest and written with a raw intensity, it will challenge you to rethink your most intimate decisions and may just upend your life.
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-10-24
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0307830357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters conflict with the overseer, Sidney Bonbon, and a tale of revenge, lust and power plays out between Marcus, Bonbon, BonBon's mistress Pauline, and BonBon's wife Louise.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0762498145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautifully illustrated version of the original 1925 edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Great American novel. Widely considered to be the greatest American novel of all time, The Great Gatsby is the story of the wealthy, quixotic Jay Gatsby and his obsessive love for debutante Daisy Buchanan. It is also a cautionary tale of the American Dream in all its exuberance, decadence, hedonism, and passion. First published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons, The Great Gatsby sold modestly and received mixed reviews from literary critics of the time. Upon his death in 1940, Fitzgerald believed the book to be a failure, but a year later, as the U.S. was in the grips of the Second World War, an initiative known as Council on Books in Wartime was created to distribute paperbacks to soldiers abroad. The Great Gatsby became one of the most popular books provided to regiments, with more than 100,000 copies shipped to soldiers overseas. By 1960, the book was selling apace and being incorporated into classrooms across the nation. Today, it has sold over 25 million copies worldwide in 42 languages. This exquisitely rendered edition of the original 1925 printing reintroduces readers to Fitzgerald's iconic portrait of the Jazz Age, complete with specially commissioned illustrations by Adam Simpson that reflect the gilded splendor of the Roaring Twenties.
Author: Anne Crow
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 2016-03-21
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1471854086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise The Great Gatsby throughout the course. This Study and Revise guide: - Increases students' knowledge of The Great Gatsby as they progress through the detailed commentary and contextual information written by experienced teachers and examiners - Develops understanding of characterisation, themes, form, structure and language, equipping students with a rich bank of textual examples to enhance their coursework and exam responses - Builds critical and analytical skills through challenging, thought-provoking questions and tasks that encourage students to form their own personal responses to the text - Extends learning and prepares students for higher-level study by introducing critical viewpoints, comparative references to other literary works and suggestions for independent research - Helps students maximise their exam potential using clear explanations of the Assessment Objectives, sample student answers and examiner insights - Improves students' extended writing techniques through targeted advice on planning and structuring a successful essay
