The Great Gatsby
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An
undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, this stunning, lavishly designed new edition of The Great Gatsby
is perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike.
In
his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores
the paradisiacal illusions of the post?World War One generation, only to
shatter them. At the heart of this piercing and defining novel of
the Jazz Age is the eponymous romantic, holding tight to the past while
pursuing the elusive future of his dreams.
Living in a glittering mansion on Long Island, Jay Gatsby is
famous for his hedonistic parties that draw strangers like moths to his starlight,
even as sensational rumors surround him and his fortune. With the arrival of
his new neighbor, Nick Carraway, a modest bond salesman from the Midwest,
Gatsby finds a confidant for his burdensome secrets and an arbiter who can help
him obtain what he most desires?the luminous socialite across the bay.
She is Daisy, the lost and treasured love of his youth, a
self-absorbed beauty unsettled in a marriage with the unfaithful Tom Buchanan.
Winning her back is the finest and surest of Gatsby's illusions?a chance to
rewrite the past and reclaim the great passion Gatsby is tragically doomed to
pursue.
One of the most renowned works of American literature, a
tale of ambition, desolation, and blinded love, Fitzgerald's seminal classic
will continue to resonate with generations of readers to come.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.
