Book description
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always
be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his
glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion 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, though no one knows
what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a
secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this
destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
Contains explanatory notes and an introduction written by Tony Tanner.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota,
and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later
married Zelda Sayre. His first novel,
This Side of Paradise
published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success.
Fitzgerald followed with
The Beautiful and the Damned
in 1922,
The Great Gatsby
in 1925 and
Tender is the Night
in 1934. He was working on
The Last Tycoon
(1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
