Scribner
October 1999
On Sale: September 30, 1999
Featuring: Daisy; Jay Gatsby
180 pages ISBN: 0743273567 EAN: 9780743273565 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds'
third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the
supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three
times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had
taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm
and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp
social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's
"best work" thus far. 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 remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex
the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale
of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of
myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of
magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is
one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
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