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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the "Jazz Age", as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.

UCZ SIĘ ANGIELSKIEGO Z WIELKIM GATSBYM Wielka powieść amerykańska. Poznaj świat intryg, romansów i emocji targających nowojorskimi elitami epoki prohibicji. Nick Carraway, młody absolwent uniwersytetu Yale, przeprowadza się na Long Island. Jego sąsiadem jest bajecznie bogaty, tajemniczy Gatsby. Okazuje się, że kuzynka Nicka była kochanką Gatsby’ego w czasach, gdy nie był on jeszcze bogaty. Dawna para spotyka się po raz pierwszy od pięciu lat, a Nick stopniowo odkrywa prawdę o przeszłości sąsiada. Nieważne, czy znasz tę historię z polskiego tłumaczenia, czy sięgasz po nią po raz pierwszy. Czytając ją po angielsku, w naturalny sposób przyswoisz konstrukcje leksykalno-gramatyczne, wzbogacisz słownictwo oraz utrwalisz umiejętność czytania ze zrozumieniem. Ja...

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars' The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him? VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

No writer portrayed America's Jazz Age as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories that seem as fresh and modern today as they did when published a century ago. This Great Gatsby and Other Classic Works features Fitzgerald?s first two published novels?This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned?and 19 short stories, including the classics "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button...

?Tak oto dążymy naprzód, kierując łodzie pod prąd, który nieustannie znosi nas w przeszłość?. Jedno z najsłynniejszych zdań w literaturze światowej - w niedościgłym przekładzie Ariadny Demkowskiej-Bohdziewicz - kończy tę opowieść o biednym chłopaku i bogatej dziewczynie, pozornie rodem z taniego romansu. Ale kiedy historię Jaya Gatsby?ego i Daisy Buchanan opowiada tak zawile i przekornie jej świadek, wielkoduszny agent giełdowy Nick Carraway, ten złudny ?wyciskacz łez? zamienia się w błyskotliwą kronikę zwodniczego świata szalonych lat dwudziestych w Ameryce. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) to najwybitniejszy przedstawiciel tzw. straconego pokolenia pisarzy amerykańskich, a wydana w roku 1925 powieść ?Wielki Gatsby? zagwarantowała mu poczesne miejsc...

Everybody wants to know Jay Gatsby. He is handsome and very rich. He owns a big house, and he has wonderful parties there. But after the music and dancing, does anybody really know who Jay Gatsby is? This is a story of love, money, and secrets. Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework nd include language activities that help readers to develop key skills. The Great Gatsby, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text...

The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby’s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he’s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper „he killed a man once”. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby – young, handsome, fabulously rich – always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender is the Night is as sad as it is beautiful.

In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. Part of the Macmillan Collector?s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one pers...