The Great Gatsby

Zusatztext In 'The Great Gatsby'! Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionof post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealthand status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular timeand place! for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream! Fitzgeraldre-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality. 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 In 'The Great Gatsby'! Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionof post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealthand status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular timeand place! for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream! Fitzgeraldre-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality. Zusammenfassung Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F.Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tony Tanner
• Assisted by: William Blažek (Introduction), Tony Tanner (Introduction), Tanner Tony (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.02.2000
• EAN: 9780141182636
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118263-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; MC FICTION ENG; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; MC FICTION ENG
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Long Island, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1919 to c 1929 (The Jazz Age), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary