num_pages: 258
description: The Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby's grand effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream. Deeply romantic in its concern with self-making, ideal love, and the power of illusion, it draws on modernist techniques to capture the spirit of the materialistic, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed "the jazz age." Gatsby’s aspirations remain inseparable from the rhythms and possibilities suggested by modern consumer culture, popular song, the movies; his obstacles inseparable from contemporary American anxieties about social mobility, racial mongrelization, and the fate of Western civilization.This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material about the consumer culture in which Fitzgerald was immersed; about the spirit of the jazz age; and about racial discourse in the 1920s.
language: English
title: The Great Gatsby
titlecomplete: The Great Gatsby
characters: Meyer Wolfsheim, George Wilson, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan
genres: Fiction, American, School, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Read For School, High School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 4979720
places: New York (State), Long Island, New York, The United States of America, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: Broadview Press