The Great GatsbyFitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway watches his wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby try to recover a romance with Daisy Buchanan. Their summer on Long Island exposes the cost of that ambition.
From the English edition
He didn’t say 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 judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was…
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Project Gutenberg eBook 64317 · English
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