Everyman's Book Club: The Great Gatsby
Tender is the night when spent with a copy of The Great Gatsby, as Heal's Design Consultant Victoria Rowse explains in her first Everyman's Book Club review.
Over the coming weeks Victoria be will giving her own take on five classic pieces of literature, all of which have been beautifully repressed by Everyman's Library, along the way offering insight and advice on how to develop your interior design by building a library of books. “
F Scott Fitzgerald has a rhythm to his prose that leaves me daydreaming as much of the man behind the tale of Mr Jay Gatsby as of Gatsby himself. A short but passionate read, The Great Gatsby not only gives you the joy of a story that develops characters and plot with expert finesse, but also provides a near autobiographical insight into the author and his time.
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” Neri & Hu furniture for De La Espada, designs that are perfect for any soirée. Written in the roaring 1920's, the book captures the time in which it was written with such livelihood that you cannot help but believe Fitzgerald himself had tasted those same decadent excesses as his subjects.
The characters come to life with such speed and depth that the reader is left totally invested in the lives of Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan, their grasps at the “American dream” and the resulting chaos that enfold around them.
“Evoking its own tale of music, it could not suit the Jazz age better.”
What is most striking about The Great Gatsby is the rhythm of Fitzgerald's writing. Evoking its own tale of music, it could not suit the Jazz age better. It is a masterful composition that carries the reader along pianofortes, crescendo and right up to the novels grand finale with a passion and energy that is only befitting for a story of decadence, idealism and tenderness in equal measure.
"It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before." Bedroom furniture fit for Gatsby's wardrobe from Riva 1920. Now held as a modern literary classic, The Great Gatsby has never gone out of print since its release in 1925.
This latest edition from Everyman's Library is worthy of even Gatsby’s resplendent bookshelves and with limited space in my, let's say, “quirky” London apartment, this book is a great example of beautiful design that helps make a house a home. ”
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