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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Description for The Great Gatsby
Hardcover. Set in the post-Great War Long Island/New York world of the rich. The narrator, Nick Carraway, sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby's romantic dream which founders on the reality of corruption, the insulated selfishness of Tom and Daisy, and the cutting edge of violence. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857150193
SKU
V9781857150193
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About F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Great Gatsby
A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel
John Carey
Sunday Times
John Carey
Sunday Times