The Great Gatsby

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Description

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.

Additional information

Weight0.092 kg
Dimensions1 × 11 × 17.8 cm
Format

Paperback

Pages

160

Year Published

2016-7-7

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1784871656

About The Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). Best known for The Great Gatsby (1925) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922), the main themes of his work were love, society and class, aspiration, and loss. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24,1896, his father, Edward was from Maryland and his mother, Mary McQuillan was the daughter of an Irish immigrant. His first interaction with the art of storytelling was when a detective story he wrote was published in the school newspaper when he was thirteen. He moved to New York City to pursue his literary career. His work belongs with the best of his contemporaries.

Review Quote

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.

Other text

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 exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true "business": "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty"

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