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Great Gatsby Limited Edition Fountain Pen
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Some novels enter the history of literature and, at the same time, come to symbolize an entire era. "The Great Gatsby" by F.
Scott Fitzgerald is one of these jewels of modern American literature. Published in 1925, the novel paints a fascinating picture of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, a time of unprecedented wealth and excess. The bustling city of New York, the sumptuous mansions of Long Island and the lavish high-society parties serve as the backdrop to the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who will stop at nothing to win back the lost love of his youth, Daisy Buchanan.
The dazzling New York of Gatsby's era, where Art Deco skyscrapers glittering in the evening blue sky, inspired the design of the Great Characters Homage to The Great Gatsby Special Edition. Designed as a tribute to one of the first Montblanc writing instruments of the Art Deco era, the surface of the barrel, shaped using a special technique, seems to reflect the illuminated façades of the skyscrapers of the bustling city at night. Far from being a mere fictional device, the fluorescent Montblanc emblem at the top of the cap truly glows like the green light at the end of the dock at Daisy's house in "The Great Gatsby": it captures and stores light during the day to glow in the dark.
The apparent power of money is symbolized in this edition by the platinum-plated clip that takes the form of a money clip. Its rounded opening shines with Jay Gatsby's initials in the form of a gold-plated rhomboid Art Deco monogram. The myth of the American dream and the design of the often elegant flasks of the Art Deco period are evoked by the cone, which imitates the screw cap engraved with a flask, and by the fine rings in the colors of the American flag that surround it.
The essence of the realized American dream is revealed when you remove the cap of this edition and see the rhodium-plated 585 solid gold nib. It is adorned with an image of Jay Gatsby's sumptuous car, enthusiastically described by F. Scott Fitzgerald as "a rich cream color, bright with nickel, … and splashed with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns".