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Long regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, this beautiful edition of
The Great Gatsby which includes an Introducion and Afterword by Richard Smoley, is the original text which expresses many of the central themes of the American myth: romance, love, the quest for wealth and status, loneliness, and corruption.
About the author
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Richard Smoley, author of the introduction and afterword, is the distinguished author of twelve books, mostly recently The Truth about Magic, also published by G&D. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities, he published First Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate, 1866–1976, while still an undergraduate.
