The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the defining novels of the twentieth century — a devastating portrait of the American Dream and its discontents, set among the gilded parties and secret corruptions of 1920s Long Island. Nick Carraway narrates the story of his mysterious neighbour Jay Gatsby, whose extraordinary wealth masks a desperate, ultimately self-destructive obsession with the past and with the unattainable Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald’s prose is among the most beautiful in American fiction: lyrical, precise, and capable of catching the particular glamour and emptiness of a world built on illusion. Published in a beautiful new edition, The Great Gatsby rewards every reading — there is always more to find in its deceptively simple surface, more sadness in its glittering world, more truth in its famous green light.