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The Great Gatsby - Il Grande Gatsby
It’s the Great Gatsby but with cats. The same all-American classic but with felines. If you already love the Great Gatsby, this absurdist reimagining will help you rediscover an old favorite. If you already love cat literature, you can add an all-time great novel to your library. If you’re looking to read it for the first time, why not do so with cats? Because this version is almost exactly the same as the original, but instead of people, the characters are all cats. In these uncertain times, we could all use a little more silliness in our lives. This book is an attempt to add some whimsy to the world. "In my younger and more vulnerable years as a kitten, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the cats in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ He didn’t meow any more but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,334 books25.6k followersFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
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September 22, 2025
Por alguna razón me da algo de melancolía
February 6, 2025
"The Great Gatsby" is one of my favorite books, and I love this edition. The artwork is punctilious, to use one of the words in the glossary, and brings this text back to the mid-1920s in a way that I haven't seen in any of the new editions (or the old, for that matter). As an educator who teaches Fitzgerald often, I feel this edition could be very helpful in the classroom, but I think it would be great for anyome who loves this book and just wants a little more than the standard text. A great improvement on a great book.
October 5, 2025
El primer error que he cometido es haber visto primero la película y muchos años después haber leer el libro.
Es considerada una obra fundamental en la literatura estadounidense y hasta cierto punto un clásico obligatorio.. Es un libro que merece la pena leer por su valor literario e histórico y así lo hice, dolo por el gusto de hacerlo.
El libro retrata los años 20 reflejando la sátira sobre la riqueza, el materialismo y la corrupción del "sueño americano". La trama desarrolla temas como el amor, el pasado, la ambición y la identidad. Sin embrago, como lectora, no logre conectar con los personajes ni con la historia. Es posible que se deba a que ya conocía la historia y no me sorprendió en absoluto nada de lo que se narra en la novela
Es considerada una obra fundamental en la literatura estadounidense y hasta cierto punto un clásico obligatorio.. Es un libro que merece la pena leer por su valor literario e histórico y así lo hice, dolo por el gusto de hacerlo.
El libro retrata los años 20 reflejando la sátira sobre la riqueza, el materialismo y la corrupción del "sueño americano". La trama desarrolla temas como el amor, el pasado, la ambición y la identidad. Sin embrago, como lectora, no logre conectar con los personajes ni con la historia. Es posible que se deba a que ya conocía la historia y no me sorprendió en absoluto nada de lo que se narra en la novela
November 18, 2025
Questo è un libro su un uomo che ha perso la ragazza che amava a favore di un uomo più ricco, così ha fatto una fortuna e l'ha spesa in feste per attirare la sua attenzione e rubarla di nuovo a suo marito...bella scrittura ma la storia non mi ha catturato molto
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July 25, 2022
It amuses me to no end that someone took the time to make this, and it cracked me up the entire time. Kudos and meows to you, Geoff Daily! 😂
May 3, 2025
really a remarkable approach to language absorption, i hope to see more of these in the future
May 9, 2025
Been revisiting books I’ve read in the past. This is one of my favorites and I loved reading it again! A perfect quick read/listen🙌🏽
June 15, 2025
Molto ben scritto, ma la storia non mi prende.
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