The Great Gatsby
$41.93
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
29 November 1991
Summary
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 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 th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857150193 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857150198 |
| Author: | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 1991 |
| Weight: | 321g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 137mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel – John Carey * Sunday Times *
About The Author
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 success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
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