Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/01/2011
ISBN: 9780099541530
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
Weight: 117g
RRP: £7.99
Read F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America.
Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, he longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion in one of the 20th century’s true contenders for the title of ‘Great American Novel’.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/01/2011
ISBN: 9780099541530
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
Weight: 117g
RRP: £7.99
The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression.
Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true "business": "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty"
It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life
The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight
His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them all