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L'un des livres les plus traduits et les plus aimés au monde, illustré par les aquarelles de l'auteur.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01ksxyndycer2zhhwvt8yzyybf.jpg","LKF6O,009a-.00~UxuM|-;WARlRn",1971,99,[977],{"id":978,"slug":979,"name":980},"01kjq7k09gn2zfvrbr8fzd277s","antoine-de-saint-exupery-woha","Antoine de Saint-Exupéry",[982,986,987,988,989,990,991,992],{"id":983,"name":984,"slug":985,"is_fiction":19},12,"Fairy Tales","fairy-tales",{"id":156,"name":157,"slug":158,"is_fiction":18},{"id":275,"name":276,"slug":277,"is_fiction":19},{"id":67,"name":197,"slug":198,"is_fiction":19},{"id":97,"name":327,"slug":328,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":909,"name":910,"slug":911,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":70,"complexity":7,"audience":995,"mood":996,"themes":997,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},"children",[250,74,127],[],{"key":999,"params":1000,"works":1001},"genre",{"genre":34},[1002,1027,1065,1109,1140,1156],{"id":1003,"slug":1004,"title":1005,"description":1006,"primary_cover_url":1007,"cover_blurhash":1008,"first_publish_year":1009,"community_rating_avg":1010,"community_rating_count":306,"page_count":7,"authors":1011,"genres":1016,"series":1023,"enrichment":1024},"01kjq7ncwh5vxdzk0h5h01d0h5","the-great-gatsby-pgsw","The Great Gatsby","Set on Long Island in the summer of 1922, The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner newly arrived in New York and renting a modest cottage next door to a vast mansion. 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