书名：The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数990L
作者：F. Scott Fitzgerald
出版社名称：Alma Classics
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9781847496140
商品尺寸：12.8 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：256（以实物为准）

The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》一经问世，便奠定了弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德在现代美国文学史上的地位，他成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。本书适合英语专业学生及对经典英语文学作品、美国文化感兴趣的读者。

推荐理由：
1. 弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德是二十世纪美国杰出作家，同时也是爵士时代的“编年史家”和“桂冠诗人”；
2.《了不起的盖茨比》在美国现代文库评选的20世纪百佳英语小说中高居第二名并列入美国高中课程必读书籍，被多次改编为舞台剧和电影；

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.

Review
"It seems to me the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James." --TS Eliot

"He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation." --The New York Times

一个偶然的机会，穷职员尼克闯入了挥金如土的大富翁盖茨比隐秘的世界，惊讶地发现，他内心惟一的牵绊竟是对河岸那盏小小的绿灯——灯影婆娑中，住着心爱的黛西。然而，冰冷的现实容不下缥缈的梦，到头来，盖茨比心中的女神只不过是凡尘俗世的物质女郎。当一切真相大白，盖茨比的悲剧人生亦如烟花般，璀璨只是一瞬，幻灭才是永恒。

The Great Gatsbyis told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story. It follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.

弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德，二十世纪美国杰出作家。1920年出版了长篇小说《人间天堂》，名声大噪。1925年《了不起的盖茨比》问世，奠定了他在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。菲兹杰拉德不仅写长篇小说，短篇小说也频有特色。除上述两部作品外，主要作品还有《夜色温柔》（1934）和《末代大亨的情缘》（1941）。他的小说生动地反映了20年代“美国梦”的破灭，展示了大萧条时期美国上层社会“荒原时代”的精神面。

F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American “Jazz Age” of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.

IN MY YOUNGER AND MORE VULNERABLE years my father I gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought-frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the east last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention for ever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.