num_pages: 148
description: Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby is a cynical celebration of the post-Great War Long Island/New York world of get-rich-quick. The narrator, Nick Carraway, sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby's romantic Dream which founders on the reality of corruption, the insulated selfishness of Tom and Daisy, and the cutting edge of violence. 'His style sings of home, his message is despair', wrote Cyril Connoly. It is terse, spare, lucid, imperishable, a novel of compassion, wry wisdom and narrative verve.
language: English
title: The Great Gatsby
titlecomplete: The Great Gatsby
characters: Meyer Wolfsheim, Nick Carraway, George Wilson, Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker, Daisy Buchanan
genres: Literature, American, Classics, School, Novels, High School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Read For School, Romance
ratings_count: 4978731
places: New York City, New York, Long Island, New York, New York (State), The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: Everyman's Library