num_pages: 233
description: 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. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life, Gatsby is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon, this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.
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: Penguin Modern Classics