The Great Gatsby

《了不起的盖茨比》(名著名译插图本)弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德（1896-1940），美国二十世纪最杰出的作家之一。《了不起的盖茨比》是他最著名的代表作。二十世纪二十年代的美国，空气里弥漫着欢歌与纵饮的气息。一个偶然的机会，穷职员尼克闯入了挥金如土的大富翁盖茨比隐秘的世界，惊讶地发现，他内心惟一的牵绊竟是对河岸那盏小小的绿灯——灯影婆娑中，住着心爱的黛西。然而，冰冷的现实容不下缥缈的梦，到头来，盖茨比心中的女神只不过是凡尘俗世的物质女郎。当一切真相大白，盖茨比的悲剧人生亦如烟花般，璀璨只是一瞬，幻灭才是永恒。一阕华丽的“爵士时代”的挽歌，在菲茨杰拉德笔下，如诗如梦，在美国当代文学史上留下了墨色浓重的印痕。

出版者:Charles Scribner's Sons

作者:[美] F·Scott Fitzgerald

页数:182

出版时间:1953

价格:$1.65

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780684717609

图书标签:了不起的盖茨比美国小说Fitzerald美国文学人生哲学English文学

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure-a phenomenon the high-living writer was only too familiar with. In THE GREAT GATSBY, Fitzgerald looks deeply into himself and his milieu to create the story of James Gatz, a self-educated nobody from North Dakota who has amassed a fortune and adopted the persona of Jay Gatsby, an Oxford-educated man about town, for the sole purpose of winning back the heart of Daisy, the woman he loved in his youth. Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan-a brutal, ignorant racist who embodies the corruption that can come with unlimited wealth. As Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom-and the narrator, Daisy's cousin Nick Carroway, who serves as the author's spokesman-play out the drama in a small Long Island town (the East Hampton of its day), Fitzgerald makes it increasingly clear that life is meaningless when it is based on money and glamour at the expense of the solid American values of self-reliance and hard work-and Gatsby's sad end underscores the point. THE GREAT GATSBY has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and, just as Fitzgerald's book grew out of the tradition that included Henry James and Edith Wharton, its influence on later writers from J. D. Salinger to John O'Hara cannot be overestimated. The book remains vividly alive and widely read years after its writing.

读后感

等待的哀歌 当我翻完《了不起的盖茨比》的最后一页，我莫名其妙的回忆起一年前的一个秋夜阅读果戈理《涅瓦大街》的情景。当我在涅瓦大街迷人的街灯和喧闹的人群中目睹一个纯真又孱弱的年轻人的激情，被现实的荒谬彻底击碎的时候，我感到一种难以名状的情绪令我无处遁形。庇斯卡...  

等待的哀歌 当我翻完《了不起的盖茨比》的最后一页，我莫名其妙的回忆起一年前的一个秋夜阅读果戈理《涅瓦大街》的情景。当我在涅瓦大街迷人的街灯和喧闹的人群中目睹一个纯真又孱弱的年轻人的激情，被现实的荒谬彻底击碎的时候，我感到一种难以名状的情绪令我无处遁形。庇斯卡...  

作者：烽少 她是你久久注视，整夜整夜看守，想要用双手严严实实地遮住，好好守护的远处那一盏小星星一样孤零零的绿灯; 你不过是她天空中的浮云一片。你的远道而来，难道只为这一刻遇见她后的烟消云散？ 盖茨比的伟大和悲哀就在于身在纸醉金迷，纵情享乐的时代，仍念念不忘，不...  

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conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes,but after a certain point i don't care what it's founded on.

amazing language, reread to prepare for the film (like yelin did)

What do u want in life?

为何不能做痴情浪漫主义者要做美国梦代言人。

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