书名：The Great Gatsby伟大的盖茨比The English Library

作者：Fitzgerald, F Scott

出版社名称：Penguin Classics

出版时间：2018

语种：英语

ISBN：9780241341469

商品尺寸：19.8 x 0.9 x 12.9 cm

包装：平装

“这是那种少有的微笑，带有安慰的意味，你一生中可能会遇到四五次。”

杰伊·盖茨比是一个什么都有的人。但有一样东西他永远无法触及…任何人都能参加他华丽的宴会。他在长岛的宅邸，日夜都挤满了聪明的年轻人喝酒、跳舞，还有谈论他神秘的性格。盖茨比是年轻、英俊、富有的代名词，但他在人群中似乎总是孤身一人，谁也不知道他为什么总是注视着什么、好像在等待什么。在他生命闪耀的表面之下，他隐藏着一个秘密:一个永远无法实现的沉默的渴望。很快这种执念就迫使他的世界分崩离析。

'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'

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.

弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德1896年出生于明尼苏达州的圣保罗，在普林斯顿大学接受教育。他在阿拉巴马州驻扎时，遇到了塞尔达·塞勒，后来与她结婚。他的第一部小说《天堂的这一面》于1920年出版，在评论界和商业上都获得了巨大的成功。紧随其后的作品是1922年的《美丽与诅咒》、1925年的《了不起的盖茨比》和1934年的《夜色温柔》。1940年，他在好莱坞去世，当时他正在拍摄《最后的大亨》(1941)。

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.