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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby glows with parties, music, and the promise of a life that always seems just within reach. Beneath the glitter, however, lies something quieter: the desire to recover a lost dream and believe that the past can somehow be remade. Fitzgerald captures hope, loneliness, and self-deception with a lightness that still feels strikingly modern. It is a book about how brightly dreams can shine — and how they can keep receding even as we move toward them.
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- Author
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- Language
- English
- Edition type
- Public domain
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- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Reference
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317
- Contributors
- Ajwen
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About the author
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer and one of the defining voices of the Lost Generation, capturing the glitter, longing, and fragility of the American dream with unforgettable elegance. In The Great Gatsby, he created a world of champagne-lit parties, romantic obsession, and self-invention, shaped in part by the intimate textures of his life with Zelda — her letters, notes, and the charged atmosphere of their marriage. His work includes novels, short stories, essays, and magazine pieces in which polished style often carries a deep undertow of disillusionment. Fitzgerald himself lived close to the edge of the world he described, surrounded by fame, debt, alcohol, and a restless hunger to be recognized. Behind the brilliance of the Jazz Age stands a writer who understood the party best just as the lights were beginning to fade.
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Dreams, Obsessions and Ambitions
Stories of dreams, ambition, obsession, social ascent, great goals, and the price a person pays for wanting to gain something, achieve something, or become someone else. This collection belongs to books in which a dream may be both hope and trap.