num_pages: 122
description: Librarian note: Older cover of 9781853260414.The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "best work" thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
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: 4978034
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: Wordsworth Editions Ltd