了不起的盖茨比（英文原版）pdf/doc/txt格式电子书下载

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作者：（美）菲茨杰拉德（F．ScottFitzgerald）著

出版社：天津人民出版社

出版时间：2014-07-01

书籍编号：30180170

ISBN：9787201087924

正文语种：英文

字数：43816

版次：1

所属分类：外语学习-英语读物

THE GREAT GATSBY
了不起的盖茨比

（英文朗读版）

（美）菲茨杰拉德（F．Scott Fitzgerald） 著

天津人民出版社

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-bouning lover，

I must have you！”

THOMAS PAPKE D\'INVILLIERS

“I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby\'s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited．People were not invited—they went there．They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby\'s door．Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks．Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all，came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.”

——F．Scott Fitzgerald

Chapter 1

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I\'ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one，”he told me，“just remember that all the people in this world haven\'t had the advantages that you\'ve had.”

He didn\'t say any more but we\'ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way，and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that．In consequence I\'m inclined to reserve all judgments，a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores．The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person，and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician，because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild，unknown men．Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep，preoccupation，or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions．Reserving judgments is a matter of infnite hope．I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that，asmy father snobbishly suggested，and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

And，after boasting this way of my tolerance，I come to the admission that it has a limit．Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don\'t care what it\'s founded on．When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever；I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart．Only Gatsby，the man who gives his name to this book，was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unafected scorn．If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures，then there was something gorgeous about him，some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life，as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away．This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the“creative temperament”—it was an extraordinary gift for hope，a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever fnd again．No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end；it is what preyed on Gatsby，what foul dust foated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

My family have been prominent，well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations.The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we\'re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch，but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather\'s brother who came here in fifty-one，sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.

I never saw this great-uncle but I\'m supposed to look like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father\'s ofce．I graduated from New Haven in 1915，just a quarter of a century after my father，and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War．I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless．Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go east and learn the bond business．Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man．All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said，“Why—ye-es”with very grave，hesitant faces．Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east，permanently，I thought，in the spring of twenty-two.

The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was

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