The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

by F Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

Synopsis

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, he longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 06 Jan 2011

ISBN 10: 009954153X
ISBN 13: 9780099541530
Book Overview: Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece

Media Reviews
The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression. * The Times *
Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering expose of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true business : the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty -- Sarah Churchwell, * The Times *
It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life -- AN Wilson, * Daily Telegraph *
The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight * Mirror *
His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them all * Los Angeles Times *
Author Bio
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) is widely considered the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. He wrote many short stories and four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously.