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The Great Gatsby

Gatsby Unchained

February 26, 2019

A paperback tie-in version for the 1949 movie featuring Alan Ladd. Not exactly how I pictured Gatsby, but there’s no accounting for taste.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book covers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Making Gatsby

January 27, 2012

Gatsby manuscript

Fitzgerald’s handwritten manuscript of The Great Gatsby (via)

Filed Under: Books, Writing Tagged With: F. Scott Fitzgerald, manuscripts, The Great Gatsby

Mannahatta, 1609

February 10, 2011

Manahatta 1609

Mannahatta, 1609, as Henry Hudson found it. Reminds me of this:

Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

More about The Mannahatta Project here and here.

Filed Under: Odds & Ends Tagged With: F. Scott Fitzgerald, history, landscapes, New York, The Great Gatsby

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