THE GREAT GATSBY
WELCOME TO THE ROARING TWENTIES WHERE MONEY, DEBAUCHERY AND DANCING GO HAND-IN-HAND.
It is the summer of 1922 and the enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby, is in love. He has everything he could ever want The Great Gatsby [Paperback Book], except the one thing that always remains out of reach-the beautiful socialite Daisy Buchanan. A former lover, now married to someone else. At his Long Island mansion, he throws lavish parties-drowning days and nights into drinks and dancing. But all the money in the world cannot fill the emptiness in his heart. Alone; untouched by the glitz and glamour of the American rich, he stews in his secret longing. But everything changes when Gatsby befriends Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin and Gatsby’s new neighbour, who reunites the two lovers. Then begins a tale of obsession, madness, and tragedy that unravels Jay Gatsby’s life forever.
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 (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.
Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that ‘He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a “generation” … he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.’
BOOK DETAILS.
Publisher: Penguin (30 August 2021)
Language: English
Hardcover: 144 pages
ISBN-10: 0143454218
ISBN-13: 978-0143454212
Item Weight: 114 g
Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.02 x 19.81 cm
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