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

Mr. Gatsby had sent him over to cut my grass. At two o’clock a lot of flowers arrived from Gatsby’s.

The offer was obviously and tactlessly

he’s a gambler». Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: «He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919».

I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration – even Montenegro

«After that I lived like a young rajah [3

I came into a good deal of money

I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition»

I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West – all dead now.

I don’t want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear».

So my first impression, that he was a person of some importance, had gradually faded