'A classic,perhaps the supreme American novel.'- The Sunday Times
Enigmatic,intriguing and fabulously wealthy,Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan,the object of his obsession,now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer,his neighbour Nick Carraway,a writer and a cousin to Daisy,looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens.
Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional masterpiece,frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century.
Ironically,The Great Gatsbyinitially struggled to find its audience and was regarded as something of a flop after the success of This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned. It was only posthumously that Fitzgerald's novel took on its brilliance,even distributed freely amongst WWII American troops overseas to boost cultural morale.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdISBN: 9781471173936Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 15 mm
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'More than an American classic; it's become adefining document of the national psyche,a creation myth,theRosetta Stone of the American dream.'- TheGuardian
'F. Scott Fitzgerald was better than he knew,for in fact and in the literary sensehe invented a generation.'-New York Times
'An unquietmasterpiecewhose mystery never fails toexert its power.'-Robert McCrum,The Observer,'The 100 Best Novels in English'
'A classic,perhaps thesupreme American novel.'- The Sunday Times
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