The Great Gatsby (Chiltern Edition)

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.

It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.

It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.

--back cover (first edition)

Iata un roman, plin de farmec, ironic, plin de compasiune - o fuziune minunata in unitate a incongruentelor curioase din viata perioadei - care dezvaluie un erou ca nimeni altul - unul care nu ar putea trai in niciun alt moment si in niciun alt loc. Dar el va trai ca un personaj, presupunem, atata timp cat dureaza amintirea oricarui cititor. Este povestea acestui Jay Gatsby care a venit atat de misterios la West Egg, a distractiilor sale somptuoase si a dragostei sale pentru Daisy Buchanan - o poveste care variaza de la frumusetea lirica pura la realismul brutal si este infuzata cu un sentiment de ciudatenie a circumstantelor umane intr-un univers lipsit de atentie. Este o carte vie, magica, amestecata cu ironie, romantism si misticism. coperta (prima editie)