Fitzgerald's: The Great Gatsby

by Henry Dan Piper

Book Overview

Fitzgerald's classic about the shallow existence of the idle rich is accompanied by biographical information on the author, critical reviews of the novel, and historical and social writings of the era. Bibliogs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0023957107
• ISBN13: 9780023957109
• Release Date: March 1970
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

I love to read well written novels!

I have read this book three times and I can read it again. I really enjoyed this novel. I recomended to anyone who loves to read novels that include drama and suspense.

The sadness brings the whole novel into reality.

This is a novel of one man's heart wrenching battle to gain the love of a women who is emotionally blind. Gastby once turned down for being poor feels the same rejection now as he is rich. Throughout the whole novel his life is read aloud by his only friend who loves him for himself...the narrator. The compelling drama of this story brings ones own life into reality....do we actually form materialistic relatioships? That may be one question worth asking yourself at the closing of the novel. From the destruction of his massive parties inflicted by his "friends" to the destruction of himself from his beloved Daisy, one wishes they may reach in the book and and make Gatsby see what everyone but himself can see. His goal in life...his compelling love, is leading to his inevitable destruction.