The Great Gatsby

Day and night Jay Gatsby's mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret longing that can never be fulfilled. In The Great Gatsby , Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. And in chronicling the tragic pursuit of a dream, he recreates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: Tony Tanner (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780241387498
• ISBN: 978-0-241-38749-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Long Island, c 1920 to c 1929, USA: The Jazz Age