The Great Gatsby - Tiffany Edition

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 'A page-turner and a heartbreaker' Time 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 hisguests 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? 'One of the greatest works of American literature?a timeless evocation of the allure! corruption and carelessness of wealth' The Times Zusammenfassung WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby’s party. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?This edition of The Great Gatsby is the result of a unique collaboration between Tiffany & Co.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2013
• EAN: 9780099577720
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957772-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 206 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, FICTION / Literary, Long Island, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1919 to c 1929 (The Jazz Age)