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标题：Gatsby, literature’s party animal, turns 90
I was in high school when I first fell for Gatsby, who turns 90 today — an “old sport” by any measure. He was 50 even then, but he appeared to me as Robert Redford in a pink Ralph Lauren suit and those “shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel” that set Daisy sobbing in Chapter 5. How could a freckle-faced, Catholic-raised virgin resist that kind of bad boy: rich and handsome, with the best party house in town, even if he never did mingle？
Gatsby seems the kind of guy who would always have been popular. But the truth is more complicated. “The Great Gatsby” was published on April 10, 1925. Max Perkins, F. Scott Fitzgerald&39;s editor, thought it a masterpiece. The then-29-year-old Fitzgerald wrote of the novel before it was published, “It represents about a year&39;s work and I think it&39;s about ten years better than anything I&39;ve done.”
And it did receive some praise in its early days, for sure. The New York Times called it “a curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of today.” But others weren&39;t enamored. The New York World ran a review under the headline “F. Scott Fitzgerald&39;s Latest a Dud” (ouch!), and Perkins wrote at the time that so many people attacked him over the book that he felt “bruised.”
Sales were lackluster too. The first printing of Fitzgerald&39;s debut novel, “This Side of Paradise,” had sold out in days, and Charles Scribner&39;s Sons went back to press 11 more times in two years to sell almost 50,000 copies. Fitzgerald&39;s follow-up, “The Beautiful and the Damned,” also sold well enough to put 50,000 copies into print. But the 20,000-copy first run of “The Great Gatsby” was followed by a mere 3,000 second print run, and no third. “Gatsby” was never out of print in the years before Fitzgerald died — at age 44, 15 years after its publication — only because Scribner&39;s still had unsold copies from those first two printings.
In fall 1940, Fitzgerald, writing to his wife, Zelda, of a new novel he was working on, lamented, “I don&39;t suppose anyone will be much interested in what I have to say this time and it may be the last novel I&39;ll ever write.” The last Scribner&39;s royalty check before he died that December was for $13.13.
Fitzgerald&39;s friend, the literary and social critic Edmund Wilson — who said of Fitzgerald&39;s death that he “felt robbed of some part of my own personality” — helped with the posthumous publication of Fitzgerald&39;s unfinished “The Last Tycoon.” He and Perkins, together with other Fitzgerald friends and fans, worked to keep critical attention on Fitzgerald&39;s work. Without them, “Gatsby” might have disappeared altogether from the American literary canon.
It was World War II, though, that gave “The Great Gatsby” a real boost in readership. As the war came to a close, 150,000 pocket-sized “Armed Service Edition” paperbacks were sent to soldiers, men who were perhaps left dreaming of swapping their uniforms for all those monogrammed shirts, and almost certainly of Daisy.
How the almost-forgotten novel ended up being chosen for this distribution isn&39;t clear. Maureen Corrigan, in her book about “Gatsby,” “So We Read On,” speculates that Nicholas Wreden, a member of the book industry&39;s Council on Books in Wartime who also happened to be the manager of Scribner&39;s bookstore, may have had a hand in it, a hand perhaps guided by Perkins. The cover of the soldiers&39; edition, in selling Gatsby as “the greatest of the ‘racketeers&39; in American fiction,” may have led some to open it expecting Dashiell Hammett. That idea was perpetuated by the movie tie-in edition released by Bantam a few years later; on its cover, Howard Da Silva, as the character George Wilson, points a gun at a bare-chested and very buff Alan Ladd as Gatsby — a paperback that was reprinted five times by 1954.
The Bantam success influenced Scribner&39;s reissue of the novel, first in collected-work volumes, then in a 1957 student paperback. Sales of the latter — designed for baby boomers needing something beyond textbook excerpts to test their literary mettle — rose from 12,000 in its first year to 36,000 in 1958, 100,000 each year by 1960, and three times that before Robert Redford donned that pink Lauren suit.
Were students reading “Gatsby” because of its literary heft or because it was teachable？ Likely both, but in any event the result was an explosion of scholarly analysis paralleling the growth in sales and the dawning recognition of an American classic. This week, 90 years after its publication, “The Great Gatsby” is a phenomenon, having spent 476 weeks — more than nine years in total — on one national bestseller list, and “timed out” of most of the others. Internationally it has sold more than 25 million copies. It&39;s impossible to say how many scholarly articles it has given rise to, but a Google search of “Gatsby” returns 34 million hits.
Happy 90th, Old Sport. And many more.
Troubleshooting Guide When it comes to figuring out what is wrong with an air conditioning unit, most people would prefer to leave it to a licensed professional. However, it is quite possible to repair simple problems by yourself. 1. The main problem usually occurs with the filter just inside the air conditioning unit panel. Most people can change the filter themselves, but they neglect changing their air conditioning filter once a month and it ends up clogging. Be sure to change your filter and try turning the unit off for a few hours to allow any ice to thaw. 2. In addition, a low freon pressure could also be the culprit. The ideal pressure reading should be around 65-70 psi, so you will need freon gauges to get a reading from the high side(the larger of the two freon lines). Freon can slowly escape from the outside unit over time. That is why the unit must be serviced occasionally. 3. When the thermostat is turned down low and the unit inside is not coming on at all, it could be caused by the condenser fan motor. Wire connections could be burning up or may have been loosened by vibration. When this happens, it needs to be replaced. From: Mark Henry＜mhenry@hmail.com＞ To: Customer Service Department＜customerservie@tgelectronics.com＞ Re: Air Conditioning Date: August 25 To whom it may concern, On July 2, I purchased an air conditioning system(model number 369). Although the product came with a one-year limited warranty, I spent an additional $130 and purchased a five-year extended warranty that covers all parts and labor. Two weeks ago I noticed that the air conditioning system was making a strange noise. A visit by the technician on August 10(invoice TB 5789)revealed that the air conditioning systems freon pressure was 50 psi. I was promised that freon gas would be refueled in under a week, but it ended up taking nine days for that to happen. I received a bill today for the cost of the freon gas and repairs. It is my understanding that parts and labor are covered under the warranty, so I should not have received a bill. I appreciate your attention to this matter. Mark Henry
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