The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Overview

The Great Gatsby, ​ the third novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, follows a cast of affluent characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.

Nick Carraway, a World War I veteran and aspiring bond salesman, recounts the lavish lifestyle of the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.

Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781668525494
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 01/01/2021
Pages: 104
Sales rank: 176,566
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

About The Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'.

In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.

Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation" ... he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University
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