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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A luminous classic about desire, glamour and the cost of illusion.

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Genre

Literary fiction

Subgenre

Jazz Age tragedy

Original publication

10 April 1925

Original publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons

Pages

180

Format

Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions

Language

English

Setting

Long Island and New York City in the 1920s

ISBN

9780743273565

Original title

The Great Gatsby

wealth ambition love illusion jazz age america class longing

About the book

Nick Carraway observes Jay Gatsby's dazzling pursuit of Daisy Buchanan and the dream that money cannot make real.

A stylish recommendation for readers who want ambition, wealth, longing, parties, illusion and a short American classic.

Fitzgerald turns social glitter into a study of longing, performance and the fragile dream of reinvention.

It suits readers asking for a short classic, beautiful prose, doomed romance, class critique or Jazz Age atmosphere.