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A reading edition of The Great Gatsby, installed from Project Gutenberg eBook #64317. The text of the nine chapters is presented as it stands in that source. See the colophon for edition and license details.

Fitzgerald set two pieces of front matter before Chapter I. The dedication:

Once again to Zelda

And the epigraph:

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-bouncing lover, I must have you!”

— Thomas Parke d’Invilliers

Typography

Set in p22-stickley-pro-text and neue-kabel via Adobe Fonts. Body text at a fluid size scaling between 16px and 20px. Line measure constrained to 48 characters.

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