{"product_id":"the-great-gatsby-9781774817216","title":"The Great Gatsby","description":"\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from the book: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe 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, 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 judgements is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781774817216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"F. Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51445544321205,"sku":"9781774817216","price":11.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5e70f0fe-35ea-4706-bafc-dd921738ec7d.jpg?v=1753798912","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-great-gatsby-9781774817216","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}