F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 079107577X ISBN 13: 9780791075777

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 2003

Synopsis

A critical review of the work features the contributions of Joseph B. Wagner, Ronald Berman, Elizabeth Preston, and other scholars, discussing the themes and characters of the novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.

Review:

"One of the greatest works of American literature...a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth."
"-- The Times

""It is a marvellously suggestive novel... a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life."
--A. N. Wilson", Daily Telegraph

""The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight"."
--Mirror
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 079107577X
• ISBN 13: 9780791075777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Bloom Harold