The GREAT GATSBY: an Illuminated Edition
Title | The GREAT GATSBY: an Illuminated Edition PDF eBook |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2022-05-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781948886284 |
The green light has never beamed more brightly. Since its 1925 publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece has enthralled millions with its unforgettable tale of class struggle, debauched wealth, and discarded love. Now the haunting account of Jay Gatsby's rise and fall astonishes us anew in an art-book edition that showcases the novel as the incandescent American treasure that it is. Featuring more than fifty eye-popping, full-color illustrations that combine jazz age decadence with a sleek modern sensibility, this high-end publication brings us into Gatsby's world and Gatsby into ours. A shimmering die-cut slipcase, sculpturally embossed and gold-foiled, protects an emerald-hued cover that recalls envy, money, and the mysterious glow from across a harbor, which still mesmerizes readers today. Famed illustrators Anna and Elena Balbusso are known for creating remarkable imagery that's grounded in art history and soaring in its originality. Their contemporary take on this iconic narrative reminds us that Fitzgerald's critique of privileged wealth in the roaring 20s remains potent and relevant for today's economic divide. Whether you're a fan of classic literature, a lover of beautiful illustration and design, or a collector of exceptionally gorgeous books, this Illuminated Edition will please the eye as much as Fitzgerald's story challenges the status quo. The novel that you fell in love with has never had more to tell us -- or looked as glorious doing so.
The Great Gatsby: A Novel
Title | The Great Gatsby: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | Black Dog & Leventhal |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0762498145 |
A beautifully illustrated version of the original 1925 edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Great American novel. Widely considered to be the greatest American novel of all time, The Great Gatsby is the story of the wealthy, quixotic Jay Gatsby and his obsessive love for debutante Daisy Buchanan. It is also a cautionary tale of the American Dream in all its exuberance, decadence, hedonism, and passion. First published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons, The Great Gatsby sold modestly and received mixed reviews from literary critics of the time. Upon his death in 1940, Fitzgerald believed the book to be a failure, but a year later, as the U.S. was in the grips of the Second World War, an initiative known as Council on Books in Wartime was created to distribute paperbacks to soldiers abroad. The Great Gatsby became one of the most popular books provided to regiments, with more than 100,000 copies shipped to soldiers overseas. By 1960, the book was selling apace and being incorporated into classrooms across the nation. Today, it has sold over 25 million copies worldwide in 42 languages. This exquisitely rendered edition of the original 1925 printing reintroduces readers to Fitzgerald's iconic portrait of the Jazz Age, complete with specially commissioned illustrations by Adam Simpson that reflect the gilded splendor of the Roaring Twenties.
Peter Pan: An Illuminated Edition
Title | Peter Pan: An Illuminated Edition PDF eBook |
Author | James Matthew Barrie |
Publisher | Illuminated Editions |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781948886109 |
A slipcase hardcover edition of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, brought newly to life by the lavish illustrations of Brecht Evens.
Shadowings
Title | Shadowings PDF eBook |
Author | Lafcadio Hearn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Cicada (Genus) |
ISBN |
Crime and Punishment
Title | Crime and Punishment PDF eBook |
Author | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781948886154 |
The beloved classic fantasy adventure PETER PAN (originally published in 1911 as PETER AND WENDY), has been adapted countless times for film, stage, and spin-offs -- but it's never been seen as depicted by the brushwork of celebrated Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens. This elaborately illuminated version of Barrie's perennial masterwork takes an inventive approach to world-building, treating Neverland as an imaginative space of infinite possibility to explore. Pirate ships, lost cities, fairy societies, unknowable beasts and magical creatures -- each of which fall, as Barrie wrote, "somewhere between reality and all we've ever dreamed." Featuring an introduction by Maria Tatar. 9x12", 176 pages. Signed by Dave McKean, and numbered in an edition of 250.
Everything Is Illuminated
Title | Everything Is Illuminated PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2013-09-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547523785 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Jonathan Safran Foer's debut—"a funny, moving...deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible." (Time) With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather’s village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. As his search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power. “Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated . . . Read it, and you'll feel altered, chastened—seared in the fire of something new.” — Washington Post “A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling . . . Foer can place his reader’s hand on the heart of human experience, the transcendent beauty of human connections. Read, you can feel the life beating.” — Philadelphia Inquirer
Stoner
Title | Stoner PDF eBook |
Author | John Williams |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Adultery |
ISBN | 1590179285 |
"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--