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| Publisher | Penguin Classics |
| ISBN 13 | 9780141194059 |
| ISBN 10 | 141194057 |
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Book Format | - Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | ay Gatsby is the man who has everything. 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 for the one thing that will always be out of his reach. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. |
| Editorial Review | "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 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"" (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) "Roads bucks the trend of cliched and dated book covers and seeks to reach the contemporary reader on a deeper level." Totally Dublin "For design-savvy bookworms." --The Irish Times Every detail of the design and production was considered to make these books beautiful objects, but they are not merely decorative objec... They offer a beautiful way to discover - or indeed rediscover - literary masterpieces. --The Bookseller --This text refers to the Paperback edition. |
| About the Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. |
| Publication Date | 4/11/2010 |
| Number of Pages | 272 |
The Great Gatsby - Hardcover English by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 4/11/2010
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