num_pages: 159
description: "It is a story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan, a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
language: English
title: The Great Gatsby
titlecomplete: The Great Gatsby
characters: Jay Gatsby, George Wilson, Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker, Nick Carraway, Meyer Wolfsheim, Tom Buchanan
genres: Read For School, American, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Literature, High School, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 4978468
places: New York City, New York, The United States of America, New York (State), Long Island, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: Scribner