The Great Gatsby
Edition: First Scribner Classic/Collier Edition (6), Rack-size Edition
Publisher: Collier
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780020199601
Copyright date: 1925. Introduction 1980.
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Classics; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction
Description: The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, <i>The Great Gatsby,</i> (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; Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "best work" so far. the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties in West Egg, Long Island, at a time when, <i>The New York Times</i> remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of American in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, <i>The Great Gatsby</i> is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.

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Notes: A Scribner Classic