Name: The Great Gatsby (Penguin Vitae)
Price: 20.74 GBP
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Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780143136347

portada The Great Gatsby (Penguin Vitae)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Introduction by

Illustrated by

Publisher

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780143136347

Synopsis "The Great Gatsby (Penguin Vitae)"

A collectible hardcover edition of one of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko A Penguin Vitae Edition Young, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party seems never to end, he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls around him--that he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the war, that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of the enigmatic Gatsby, for whom one thing will always be out of reach: Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from Gatsby's just across the bay. A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century. This edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream. Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as Penguin of one's life--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(Author)

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, Minnesota, 24 de septiembre de 1896-Hollywood, California, 21 de diciembre de 1940) fue un militar, anfitrión, novelista y escritor estadounidense, ampliamente conocido como uno de los mejores autores del siglo xx, cuyos trabajos son paradigmáticos de la era del jazz. Fitzgerald es considerado miembro de la Generación Perdida de los años veinte.

Escribió cinco novelas: El gran Gatsby, Suave es la noche, A este lado del paraíso, Hermosos y malditos y El último magnate, que, aunque sin terminar, fue publicada tras su muerte. Escribió también múltiples historias cortas, muchas de las cuales tratan sobre la juventud y las promesas, la edad y la desesperación.

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Min Jin Lee

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Min Jin Lee es una escritora y periodista coreana-americana. Su primera novela, Comida gratis para millonarios, fue una de las «10 Mejores Novelas del Año» para el The Times, NPR’s Fresh Air y USA Today. Ha escrito para New York Times, Condé Nast, The Times, Vogue y Wall Street Journal, entre otros. Lee es miembro del Salón de la Fama de la Fundación de las Artes de Nueva York y del Salón de la Fama de los Escritores del Estado de Nueva York. Es escritora residente en Amherst College y se desempeña como fideicomisaria de PEN America y directora del Authors Guild.

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