The Great Gatsby
Contributors: Malcolm Bradbury (Introduction)
Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 1991 September 26
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781857150193
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
Description: Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) 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 hope, his message is despair’, wrote Cyril Connolly. It is terse, spare, lucid, imperishable, a novel of compassion, wry wisdom and narrative verve.

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