THE GREAT GATSBY

Book ID/图书代码： 000970

English Summary/英文概要： The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island’s North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922.

The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamor of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it.

Although it was adapted into both a Broadway play and a Hollywood film within a year of publication, it was not popular upon initial printing, selling fewer than 25,000 copies during the remaining fifteen years of Fitzgerald’s life. It was largely forgotten during the Great Depression and World War II. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paradigm of the Great American Novel. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library’s list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. Time included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《大亨小傳》

蓋茲比年輕時愛上美麗的富家女，但卻眼睜睜的看她下嫁富家子。之後蓋茲比一夕致富……並且為了奪回黛西而孤注一擲。文壇巨擘費茲傑羅在本書中完美的呈現了憤怒的20年代。「要看一個人是否具有第一流的才能，最好的測驗莫過於看他是否能在同一時間內容納兩種相互矛盾的念頭但卻照樣能繼續其思想而不受影響。」這是費滋傑羅(1896~1940)在對他自己精神崩潰的情形所做之分析，正好成為《大亨小傳》的寫照，因為把自己寫入小說是一回事，能冷靜地保持一個距離卻是另一回事；尼克代表客觀的敘述者，蓋次璧代表主觀的浪漫主義精神，如何使這些互相矛盾的因素統一起來，才是本書的秘密所在。

Awards/获奖情况：Amazon.com Review
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald’s finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author’s generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald’s--and his country’s--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby’s rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.

It’s also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel’s more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy’s patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author/作者介绍： Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the twenties. He finished four novels, including The Great Gatsby, with another published posthumously, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.

F. S. 費滋傑羅（F. Scott Fitzrerald），二十世紀美國最具代表性的作家。1896 年 9 月 24 日生於美國明尼蘇達州聖保羅市，家境並不富裕。1917 年自普林斯頓大學輟學入伍。1920 年出版《天堂的這邊》（This Side of Paradise）而成名，同年與賽爾妲結婚。1922 年出版《美麗和毀滅的》（The Beautiful and Damned）、《爵士年代的故事》（Tale of the Jazz Age）。1924 年遷居法國。1925 年出版《大亨小傳》。1933 年完成《夜未央》（Tender is the Night），當時費滋傑羅自身已長期有酗酒問題，而妻子精神狀況不佳。1939 年開始寫作《最後的影壇大班》。1940 年 12 月 21 日心臟衰竭而亡。

費滋傑羅其一生浪漫又墮落，美麗又毀滅，一直到去世之後，才被承認是美國嚴肅而胸懷大志的作家。

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