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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Start date: January 15, 2017

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Genre: Novel
Published: April 10, 1925
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Genre: Novel
Published: April 10, 1925

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Mar 22, 2007 AZ BOOKS rated it it was amazing

"I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailor's eyes--"

"Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams, for a transitory enchanted moment man must of held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. ...more

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Sep 17, 2007 Douglas Beagley rated it it was amazing

High school and college will forever color this book in people's minds. It deserves better. Update: read once in highschool, 1994 probably, read again in 2023. The Great Gatsby deserves every honor ever given it, and it is nice to realize that this great puzzle of being human and making stories has so many majestic executions hiding away in plain site. ...more

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