The Great Gatsby is generally considered to be the finest novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in an easy style, without complex literary experiment, at the height of the author’s maturity, it is now an undisputed classic of American literature and is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The novel brilliantly brings out Fitzgerald’s central theme of the dark surrounding the brightest light, the shallowness of many human friendships, and the eerie silence as the syncopated rhythm of the jazz fades. It brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. The novel tells the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby, an army lieutenant, who lives in a luxurious mansion on the affluent Long Island shore. His lavish parties for the ‘glitterati’ of the day had become legendary on the island. Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and champagne waiters, their host appeared oddly aloof. The parties were to impress only one person, that is, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby had a brief affair with Daisy before the war and her marriage to Tom....

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1886-1940) is best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of America’s “Jazz Age” during the 1920s. He was born on 24 September, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. America, at the time of Fitzgerald’s birth, was in transition from the era of the frontier to a new age of growing cities, rapid technological advance, and the rise of what were to become the giant corporations of the twentieth century.

• Publisher: Peacock Books
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• Publication Date: July 14, 2023
• Pages: 152
• ISBN13: 9788124800706
• Item Weight: 100 grams
• Original Price: 175.0 INR
• Edition: N/A
• Binding: Paperback