Format: Paperback / softback
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the "Jazz Age", as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.
CONTRIBUTORS: F. Scott Fitzgerald
EAN: 9781847496140
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 216 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Alma Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-10-20
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GENRE: FICTION / Classics
WIDTH: 128 cm
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Book Themes:
c 1919 to c 1929 (The Jazz Age), Classic fiction: general and literary, Romance, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
It seems to me the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James. -- TS Eliot He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *
Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.