The Great Gatsby: Scott F. Fitzgerald (The Penguin English Library)

The Great Gatsby: Scott F. Fitzgerald (The Penguin English Library)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Tony Tanner (Introduction)

Synopsis

'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life' Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: 1
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 07 Jun 2018

ISBN 10: 0241341469
ISBN 13: 9780241341469
Book Overview: Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series.

Author Bio
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.