April 12, 2024
1974 "THE GREAT GATSBY" by F. Scott Fitzgerald Franklin Library Leather
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Up for sale is a beautiful 1974 Franklin Library copy of "THE GREAT GATSBY" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is The Franklin Library 100 Greatest Books of all time Edition and is bound in 100% genuine leather with raised bands along the spine. Gold Gilding to the boards and along the spine as well as gilded page ends. A beautiful copy of this classic that would look great on any book shelf. I do have several other titles up for sale by the Franklin Library right now as well if you are interested in other titles. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, The Great 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
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