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Richard Glatzer A Study Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, glittering wealth and decadence are played out against a backdrop of...
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) The Great Gatsby [1974]
Perhaps no movie could capture F Scott Fitzgerald's novel <I>The Great Gatsby</I> in its entirety, but this adaptation, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, is certainly a handsome try, putting costume design and art direction above the intricacies of character. Robert Redford is an interesting casting choice as Gatsby, the millionaire isolated in his mansion, still dreaming of the woman he lost. And Sam Waterston is perfect as the narrator, Nick, who brings the dream girl Daisy Buchanan back to Gatsby. <p> The problem seems to be that director Jack Clayton fell in love with the flapper dresses and the party scenes and the jazz age tunes, ending up with a <I>Classics Illustrated</I> version of a great book rather than a fresh, organic take on the text. While Redford grows more quietly intriguing in the film, Mia Farrow's pallid performance as Daisy leaves you wondering why Gatsby, or anyone else, should care so much about his grand passion. The effective supporting cast includes Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband, and Scott Wilson and Karen Black as the low-rent couple whose destinies cross the sun-drenched protagonists. (That's future star Patsy Kensit as Daisy's little daughter.) The film won two Oscars--not surprisingly, for costumes and musical score. --<I>Robert Horton</I>
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The Great Gatsby and A Diamond as Big as the Ritz
author: Fitzgerald, F.Scott; publisher: CRW Publishing
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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Set in the America of the Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby depicts a society obsessed by wealth, status and background. Gatsby, famous for his prodigious wealth...
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Oxford Paperbacks The Great Gatsby (Oxford World's Classics)
Pages: 198, Paperback, Oxford Paperbacks
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Penguin Books Ltd The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
In 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple, intricately patterned. That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned and, above all, simple novel became <I>The Great Gatsby</I>, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed and the promise of new beginnings. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning-- Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace be comes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.<p> It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. Her voice is full of money, Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties and waits for her to appear. When s he does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbour Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted and written in crystalline prose, <I>The Great Gatsby</I> is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. <I>Perry Freeman, Amazon.com</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd The Great Gatsby (Essential.penguin S.)
Pages: 176, Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd
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Penguin Books Ltd The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pages: 240, Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd
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Penguin Books Ltd The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics S.)
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Macmillan USA Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby: The Novel, the Critics, the Background (Scribner Research Anthologies)
Pages: 235, Paperback, Macmillan USA
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Cambridge University Press New Essays on The Great Gatsby (American Novel S.)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Great Gatsby
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Naxos AudioBooks The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics)
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Cambridge University Press F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Pages: 276, Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Oxford University Press The Great Gatsby: 3700 Headwords (Oxford Progressive English Readers)
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Cambridge University Press F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby': An Early Version of The Great Gatsby (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Cambridge University Press F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby': Early Version of the Great Gatsby (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Longman The Great Gatsby (New Longman Literature S.)
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Longman The Great Gatsby: Peng5:Great Gatsby Fitzgerald (PENG)
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Twayne Publishers Inc.,U.S. The Great Gatsby: The Limits of Wonder (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
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Sparknotes Spark Notes the Great Gatsby
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
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Everyman's Library The Great Gatsby (Everyman's Library Classics)
Pages: 176, Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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Cambridge University Press Wizard Study Guide The Great Gatsby (Cambridge Wizard English Student Guides)
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