“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”These closing words from The Great Gatsby are not simply poetic — they are […]

  THE GREAT GATSBY IX After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of […]

  THE GREAT GATSBY CHAPTER VII It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday […]

      THE GREAT GATSBY CHAPTER VII It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on […]

  THE GREAT GATSBY VI About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby’s door and asked him if he had anything […]

  THE GREAT GATSBY CHAPTER V When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two […]

  THE GREAT GATSBY IV On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously […]

  THE GREAT GATSBY CHAPTER III There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like […]

  THE GREAT GASTBY CHAPTER II About halfway between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter […]

  The Great Gatsby Chapter I In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever […]