The never-ending fascination with Long Island's Gold Coast estates is reflected in the large number of books, both non-fiction and fiction, that have been written either about the Gold Coast or with this bastion of incredible wealth serving as a backdrop.
"And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens-finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch."
Nick Carraway narrating "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Print Non-Fiction | |||
Book Title / Author | |||
101 Glimpses of Long Island's North Shore, R. Panchyk | |||
AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau & Suffolk Counties | |||
Beaux-arts Estates: a Guide to the Architecture of Long Island, L. Sclare | |||
Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House, R. Wilson | |||
Houses of McKim, Mead & White, S. White | |||
Long Island Architecture, J. Krieg | |||
L.I. Country Homes & Their Architects 1860-1940, A. Baker, et al | |||
Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates..., R. Spinzia | |||
Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast (1979), M. Randall | |||
Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast (1987, rev.), M. Randall | |||
Nassau County, L.I. in Early Photographs, 1869-1940, B. Weidman | |||
North Shore Long Island: Country Houses, 1890-1950, P. Mateyunas | |||
Winfield: Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths, M. Randall | |||
Locate using Library online catalog HERE. | |||
Print Fiction | |||
Book Title / Author | |||
The Gold Coast, N. DeMille | |||
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
Locate using Library online catalog HERE.
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