The Great Gatsby

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him? Zusammenfassung Young! handsome and fabulously rich! Jay Gatsby appears to have it all! yet he yearns for the one thing that will always be out of his reach! the absence of which renders his life of glittering parties and bright young things ultimately hollow. Glamorous! dangerous! hopeful and desperately in love! Gatsby's naïve dreams can only lead to destruction.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F.Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9780141389936
• ISBN: 978-0-14-138993-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 180 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Merchandise Books; Penguin Classics; Merchandise Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary