Fitzgerald F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
THE GREAT GATSBY
On a warm summer night in 1922, Jay Gatsby stands in the garden of his mansion on Long Island, looking out across the dark water of the bay. Out at sea is a green light, tiny and far away, and Gatsby stretches out his arms toward this light, trembling a little.
Newly arrived in Long Island, Nick Carraway watches Gatsby from his garden next door, and wonders. Who is this mysterious Jay Gatsby, whose generous champagne parties are famous all over New York? Where did his great wealth come from? The beautiful people who drink and dance all night at his parties are full of wild tales about Gatsby’s past – is he a murderer, is he a bootlegger? – but nobody knows the answers.
At a dinner party with Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Nick meets Jordan Baker, and is soon drawn into the life of Long Island. And as the summer passes, he slowly begins to uncover the mystery that is Jay Gatsby.
It is a story of excitement and violence, of love and despair; a story of bright, romantic hopes and impossible, hopeless dreams …
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,I must have you!”THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
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