The Great Gatsby: Annotated Edition

ISBN-13: 9781847496140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Opis

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the "Jazz Age," as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.

Recenzje

It seems to me the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James. TS Eliot

O autorze

Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.