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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel is the story of movie mogul Monroe Stahr. Through Stahr's struggles, Fitzgerald depicts the glamor and greed of 1930s Hollywood. This text, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, restores the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the original edition, giving new luster to a literary gem, and offering a rare glimpse into the process of one of America's greatest writers.
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Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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It is 1925, and Richard Diver is the high priest of the good life on the white sands of the French Riviera. The Beautiful People—film stars, socialites, aristocrats—gather eagerly and bitchily around him and his wife Nicole. Beneath the breathtaking glamour, however, is a world of pain, and there is at the core of their lives a brittle hollowness.
Beautiful, powerful and tragic, Tender is the Night is one of the great works
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
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Remixed classics volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future--and his life as a man--and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old...