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The Great Gatsby
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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 judgements, 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…
Details
- AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
- SourceProject Gutenberg #64317
- Length47,239 words · 3h 09m of reading
- Chapters11
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-12
Contents
11 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Thomas Parke d’Invilliers
- 02II
- 03III
- 04IV
- 05VI
- 06VII
- 07VIII
- 08IX
- 09Meyer Wolfshiem
- 10The first part of this was obviously untrue, for someone had begun to whistle “The Rosary,” tunelessly, inside.
- 11General Resolves
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