Цитаты из книги «The Great Gatsby. Адаптированная книга для чтения на английском языке. Уровень B1»

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and

drug-stores, a lot of drug-stores. He built them up himself».

The arrangement lasted five years, during which the boat went three times around the Continent. Then a woman named Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.

While he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailer

inherited money – a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn’t get it.

Cody asked him a few questions and found that he was quick and extravagantly ambitious. A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pairs of white duck trousers, and a yachting cap

He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz’s destiny.

the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota. He stayed there two weeks, despising the janitor’s work with which he was to pay his studies.

But his heart was in a constant riot. The most grotesque and fantastic visions haunted him in his bed at night.

of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about