The Great Gatsby - Penguin Classic
Author:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
ISBN:
9780141182636
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Format:
Paperback
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0
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Publishing Date:
2000
Number of Pages:
172
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Language:
English
Condition:
New
Day and night Jay Gatsby's mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret longing that can never be fulfilled.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.