The Great Gatsby
Published on 6. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-09-954153-0 (ISBN)
Description
Love, money, revenge and betrayal - this is the Jazz Age novel that became the great American classic.
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?
'Shimmers with a magic that readers have long recognised...Fitzgerald was so far ahead of his time that we are only just catching up with him' Sarah Churchwell, Guardian
'Not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth' The Times
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?
'Shimmers with a magic that readers have long recognised...Fitzgerald was so far ahead of his time that we are only just catching up with him' Sarah Churchwell, Guardian
'Not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth' The Times
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
123 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-954153-0 (9780099541530)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
E-Book
03/2011
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
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Person
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age - a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night . He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.