The Great Gatsby
By
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup by Project Gutenberg and Staff and Research Assistants at The University of Virginia, Agnes Redvil
epigraphThis is a made-up quote, and its putative author, "Thomas Parke D'Invilliers," is a fictional person. He was, in fact, a character in Fitzgerald's 1920 novel This Side of Paradise. In that book, which is a thinly-fictionalized account of Fitzgerald's undergraduate days at Princeton University, D'Invilliers is a friend of the novel's protagonist, Amory Blaine, a poet who comes off as slightly pretentious. He is believed to be based on Fitzgerald's real-life classmate, John Peale Bishop, who became a fairly well-known poet, critic, and writer in the 1920s and 1930s. That Fitzgerald starts the book with a fictional poem by a fictional character is an early hint that we might want to take the story that follows with a grain of salt. ZeldaZelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900-1948), Fitzgerald's wife. Much, much has been written about their relationship, which was passionate and also difficult, troubled by alcoholism (his) and mental illness (hers). And Zelda Fitzgerald has been a figure of fascination in her own right, a writer and artist who did not get her due in her own lifetime. The best-known book on Zelda Fitzgerald remains Nancy Milford's 1970 biography Zelda.
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THE GREAT GATSBY
BY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” --THOMAS PARKE D'INVILLIERSepigraphepigraphThis is a made-up quote, and its putative author, "Thomas Parke D'Invilliers," is a fictional person. He was, in fact, a character in Fitzgerald's 1920 novel This Side of Paradise. In that book, which is a thinly-fictionalized account of Fitzgerald's undergraduate days at Princeton University, D'Invilliers is a friend of the novel's protagonist, Amory Blaine, a poet who comes off as slightly pretentious. He is believed to be based on Fitzgerald's real-life classmate, John Peale Bishop, who became a fairly well-known poet, critic, and writer in the 1920s and 1930s. That Fitzgerald starts the book with a fictional poem by a fictional character is an early hint that we might want to take the story that follows with a grain of salt.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1925.
BY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” --THOMAS PARKE D'INVILLIERSepigraphepigraphThis is a made-up quote, and its putative author, "Thomas Parke D'Invilliers," is a fictional person. He was, in fact, a character in Fitzgerald's 1920 novel This Side of Paradise. In that book, which is a thinly-fictionalized account of Fitzgerald's undergraduate days at Princeton University, D'Invilliers is a friend of the novel's protagonist, Amory Blaine, a poet who comes off as slightly pretentious. He is believed to be based on Fitzgerald's real-life classmate, John Peale Bishop, who became a fairly well-known poet, critic, and writer in the 1920s and 1930s. That Fitzgerald starts the book with a fictional poem by a fictional character is an early hint that we might want to take the story that follows with a grain of salt.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1925.
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