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The Dalai Lama Escapes from the Chinese

By TIME Staff · Time · April 1959

The Dalai Lama Escapes from the Chinese

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"On his escape from Tibet"

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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate - a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period - which reveals a hero like no other - one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan - a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. \--first edition jacket --- Also contained in: - [The Fitzgerald Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468551W/The_Fitzgerald_Reader) - [Three Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468557W)

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