A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. The story of the mysteriously wealthy jay gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession, ” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. Nominated as one of america’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. The great Gatsby, F.
CliffsNotes on Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby CLIFFSNOTES LITERATURE
The original cliffsnotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the familiar format. Cliffsnotes on The Great Gatsby explores F. Scott fitzgerald's novel of triumph, tragedy, and a classic love triangle in the 1920s.
Following the story of a young midwesterner who's fascinated by the mysterious past and opulent lifestyle of his landlord, this study guide provides summaries and critical commentaries for each chapter within the novel.
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The great gatsby SparkNotes Literature Guide by F. Scott fitzgerald making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, and dreaded exams loom, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics.
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The Catcher in the Rye
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, but I don't feel like going into it, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, and what my lousy childhood was like, if you want to know the truth.
The hero-narrator of the catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield.
Of Mice and Men
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great DepressionA Penguin Classic Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence.
Of mice and men represents an experiment in form, which Steinbeck described as “a kind of playable novel, written in a novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands. A rarity in american letters, it achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.
An unlikely pair, george and lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For george and lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
But even george cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
To Kill a Mockingbird Harperperennial Modern Classics
. A gripping, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
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The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition
It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. The story follows the flamboyant brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. This new hemingway library edition celebrates hemingway’s classic novel with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author’s sole surviving son, and a new introduction by Sean Hemingway, grandson of the author.
Nominated as one of america’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. First published in 1926, hard, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative…a truly gripping story, told in lean, The Sun Also Rises is “an absorbing, athletic prose” The New York Times. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.
. Kennedy Library. The sun also rises is a classic example of Hemingway’s spare but powerful writing style.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.
The Grapes of Wrath
A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, and of one woman’s stoical strength, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
This centennial edition, specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck, features french flaps and deckle-edged pages. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The pulitzer prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.
First published in 1939, steinbeck’s pulitzer prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. With more than 1, 500 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
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A Raisin in the Sun
The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem, " which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun. The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun, " said The New York Times. It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic. This modern library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
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