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The Great Gatsby: Original Text

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 180 pages

A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth, which results in tragedy.

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Tom Hiddleston
“".@aleebev I loved it. I remember walking around Paris in June 2010 listening to Frank Muller reading The Great Gatsby (Unabridged). Perfect."”↗
Bryan Johnson
“"Some options: The Dream Machine, Waldrop The Beginning of Infinity, Deutsch Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Munger The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald"”↗
Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I’m a sucker for efficiency. This book gets so much out of what is, ultimately, a rather slim story. I adore it.”↗
Elif Shafak
“You can adore this book for multiple reasons. The story, the style, the craft… There are no heroes here, just human beings, with all their flaws and failures. Although it is a book about a certain place and a time, and the dark side of the American Dream, it equally feels timeless and placeless, such is its universal appeal. The Great Gatsby is not a story you can read once and put aside, it is a book that deserves to be reread at different stages of life—a companion rather than a classic.”↗
Sarah Churchwell
“@robinince @Janeannie Thank you, and doesn’t it just. - I can definitely recommend re-re-re-re-re-reading etc. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read it and I still find new phrases. Astonishing that such a short book can contain such multitudes.”↗
Hunter S. Thompson
“Recommend to Angus Cameron, Knopf editor: “If history professors in this country had any sense they would tout the book as a capsule cram course in the American Dream. I think it is the most American novel ever written. I remember coming across it in a bookstore in Rio de Janeiro; the title in Portuguese was O Grande Gatsby, and it was a fantastic thing to read it in that weird language and know that futility of the translation. If Fitzgerald had been a Brazilian he’d have had that country dancing to words instead of music.””↗
Lupita Nyong'o
“The book I have read the most times. I love the decadent melancholy of it. I also love the delicate relationship between Gatsby and his unrequited love, Daisy. My favorite sentence from the book is when Daisy says, ‘What will we do with ourselves this afternoon and the day after that, and the next thirty years?’ Now that is restlessness and privilege if I ever heard it!”↗
Jackie Collins
“Jay Gatsby—the definitive hero. Mysterious, rich, sly, handsome, cool. This is a book I try to reread quite often. It’s beautifully written, and the characters of Jay and Daisy stay with you.”↗
Richard E. Grant
“An unrequited love letter to the Jazz Age that manages to be both intimate, epic and achingly romantic about an era that almost never was.”↗
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