Der große Gatsby

75. Todestag F. Scott Fitzgeralds Die Geschichte von Jay Gatsby, einem einsamen reichen Geschäftsmann, der seiner längst verlorenen Liebe nachjagt, wurde zu einem der größten Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur. Der Roman aus dem Jahr 1925 erzählt von der Genusssucht und Langeweile der Roaring Twenties und der Sinnlosigkeit des mondänen Lebens. F. Scott Fitzgerald beschreibt auf einzigartige und authentische Weise sowohl ein Stück Zeitgeschichte als auch menschliche Tragödien. Die schlichte und zugleich poetische Sprache des Romans ist in dieser Neuübersetzung perfekt getroffen.Mit umfangreichem Anhang zu Leben und Werk Fitzgeralds.

A gripping account of the complexities of marriage, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zelda.<BR><BR>Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Featuring an afterword by Ned Halley.<BR><BR>The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness.<BR><BR>Fitzgerald skilfully portrays the east-coast elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of Fitzgerald's novels, it is a brilliant character study written in breathtaking prose.

Ein Meisterwerk der amerikanischen Literatur in neuer Übersetzung.Der große Gatsby ist ein gesellschaftskritischer Roman, der im New York der 1920er Jahre spielt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Verkörperung des amerikanischen Traums, das Streben nach Geld, Macht und Liebe, und schließlich dessen Scheitern.

A must-have new edition of one of the great American novels—and one of America's most popular—featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and a striking new cover that brings the quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties into the 2020s<BR><BR>The basis for the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada<BR><BR>One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years<BR><BR>A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper<BR><BR>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 never seems 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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Der junge Multimillionär Jay Gatsby ist berüchtigt für seine rauschenden Tanzpartys, die er in seinem Haus auf Long Island feiert, und doch ist er ein einsamer Mann. Alles, was er möchte, ist die Liebe seines Lebens, die wohlhabende und inzwischen verheiratete Daisy, zurückzugewinnen. Abiturempfehlung zum Themenbereich American Dream

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