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A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated to include the author’s final revisions and features a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

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"The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression." (The Times)

"Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true "business": "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty"" (Sarah Churchwell, The Times)

"It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life" (AN Wilson, Daily Telegraph)

"The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight" (Mirror)

"His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them all" (Los Angeles Times) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896 -1940) is widely considered the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. He wrote many short stories and four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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This critical edition of The Great Gatsby draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, together with Fitzgerald's subsequent revisions to key passages to provide the first authoritative text of one of the classic works of the twentieth century. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, starring Bryan Dick as Nick and Andrew Scott as Jay Gatsby. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

From the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born into a well-to-do Catholic family living in St Paul, Minnesota. At Princeton University he decided to become a writer, leaving without graduating in 1917 to join the army when America entered the First World War. Believing he would be killed at the front, he hurriedly wrote the novel that would become This Side of Paradise, but in the end was not sent to Europe. The novel was published in 1920 to great critical acclaim. He married Zelda Sayre a week after the publication and they embarked on an extravagant lifestyle in New York. Their marriage was blighted by alcoholism, mental illness and financial strife, and provided much material for Scott's numerous short stories and subsequent novels - The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender is the Night (1934). Fitzgerald died aged forty-four, and is regarded as one of America's greatest and most influential writers. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the Jazz Age. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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"One of the greatest works of American literature … a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth." (The Times)

"A stunning illumination of the world ... not only a miracle of talent but a triumph of technique." (Aaron Beck, Psychiatrist) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

From the Inside Flap

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age.

Jay Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his decadent parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman he has waited for all his life. Little does he know that his infatuation will lead to tragedy.

This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies.

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Ruth Prigozy is Professor and former Chair of English at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. She has edited Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and is co-editor of the F.Scott Fitzgerald Newsletter. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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'One of the greatest works of American literature...a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth' The Times

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man famed for his decadent, champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, he longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion.

'A stunning illumination of the world...not only a miracle of talent but a triumph of technique' Richard Yates

See also: The Beautiful and the Damned --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B000FC0PDA
Publisher : Scribner (27 May 2003)
Language : English
File size : 3498 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 177 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : B08S2VRH35

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- 2 in U.S. Literary Classics
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Great classic read.

Reviewed in Australia on 2 May 2020

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Required reading for my kid's school, and we read this as kids also-- great book, a classic everyone should read-- and it's so short, perfect to knock out in a few hours.

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Fun to ready much prefer the movie tho

Reviewed in Australia on 26 January 2021

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Fun ready while on the train but it's not really my style. Much prefer the movie.

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Davd Lee Andrew

Love of language; confronting truth

Reviewed in Australia on 24 May 2015

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Language delicious, often arrestingly original. Initially difficult to read because characters are not likeable, the pleasure of language & acutely rendered states of mind drove me on. Ultimately it's a moral tale about the cost of failing to live in the present. Fitzgerald implies that we are all, more or less, fixated in past experience & driven by unrealisable desire, unable to be honest with ourselves or each other about present reality. For me, that's an uncomfortable truth.

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The last time I read The Great Gatsby I was at high school

Reviewed in Australia on 28 February 2018

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The last time I read The Great Gatsby I was at high school. 30+ years later I loved it even more and got so much more of the nuance. A beautifully written, haunting classic.

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Vincent Beales

Lifes destable characters

Reviewed in Australia on 11 October 2017

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A thoroughly detestable cast of characters. Superbly written with succinct use of English. Unfortunately one does come across such cads in life from time to time.

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carol Been

Don’t download

Reviewed in Australia on 29 April 2020

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This book’s language is rubbish. From the first page it made no sense and I believe is different from the hard copy I have

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Sarah

American Classic

Reviewed in Australia on 18 May 2014

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The Great Gatsby is a wonderful novel that I have read many times before. I enjoyed rereading it in bed and on holiday as a kindle ebook via my ipad mini. I admire F Scott Fitzgerald for using so few words to say so much so well.

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Amy Gray

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Reviewed in Australia on 25 January 2019

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If you enjoy reading the classics, this one is for you.

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williamcani

Great classic, very quoteworthy and still relevant today - but needs reading a couple times

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2017

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The Great Gatsby is simultaneously a romantic and cynical novel about the lives and unfulfillment of a group of wealthy New Yorkers during the roaring 20s. Fitzgerald paints a grim portrait of shallow characters who maneuver themselves into complex situations. The self-made Gatsby is relentless in pursuance of his dreams, an avant-garde prelude to the notion of the American Dream, hence his assigned ‘Great’-ness. The writing is littered with social commentary and cynical truths that were so ahead of their time, they remain relevant now (100 years on).

Whilst the story is intricate and follows complex characters, with a technically flawless writing style and plot, occasionally I found myself bored while reading it. The shallow and careless characters are difficult to empathise with. Although, for a Classic, I found this to be accessible. I have gleaned more enjoyment as I’ve reread this novel – for example the subtle homoerotic tendencies of the narrator “Nick”.

If you found this review helpful, please do rate it as helpful – really helps me out!

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Keith Jahans

A great American classic?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2017

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I have heard this referred to as "The great American novel" and yet until now I had never read it. But I had seen two of the movies based on the book, the 1949 version staring Alan Ladd and the more recent 2013 version with Leonardo DiCaprio. I found both unmemorable except for the ending. I was put off reading the novel because of its reputation of being a classic as I thought I would find it too complex and long winded for me to follow. Then I heard that it was only just over 100 pages long so I thought I would give it a go.

The book is famous for its descriptions and I must admit that they are superb. There is not a great deal of action but there is a great deal of the characters talking about each other and principally about Gatsby. The story is seen through the eyes of one Nick Carraway, a young man who works in New York's Bond market, and who lives in a small house next to Gatsby's huge mansion where Gatsby is renowned for holding lavish parties. Thus all the descriptions and the motives attributed to the characters are made in Carraway's own words. This means that the reader is entirely dependant on his judgement about the validity of the events in the novel as they unfold.

The book is very readable and the plot held my attention right to the end even though I knew the outcome having seen the films. However, I am yet to be convinced about the greatness of the work and if it indeed it is worthy to be considered a great American classic. But please read it and decide for yourself.

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A masterpiece. This is one of the best works.

Reviewed in India on 9 September 2018

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This is considered to be one of the best fiction novels and no doubt it is a great novel. After I watched the movie, I just had to read it and oh boy!, what a beautifully written book. The book definitely arose more emotions than the movie. Gatsby is about the emptiness that is profound in the lifestyle of the society where values are completely distanced from the opulence. The more you read this book, the more you would fall into it.
This is a tragic love story. The feelings are intense and at times you would feel so much for Gatsby. There are things you can't buy with money and that is what is shown profusely in the novel. This is a very simple story but a very very complicated one at the same time. There is a lot of symbolism that one may want to understand a bit in detail. So do a bit of research on those scenarios that the author is building. This one is a classic and will always be with me. I will always revisit this story.
Gatsby is a great character that Fitzgerald has developed and many people will relate with him. Daisy is the demure girl that many people would feel so much for. This book rouses emotions and feelings to a different level.

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Rachel (Confessions of a Book Geek)

I wanted to love it, more than I did...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2016

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I've always loved the idea of The Great Gatsby, probably because of all the beautiful quotes I see all over Pinterest. When I finally got around to picking up this classic, I was apprehensive, but I was also excited!

This didn't feel like a 122 page book, and it took much longer for me to read than I thought it would. The story is intricate and the characters complex, and occasionally I found myself bored while reading it. The writing is dripping with social commentary and cynical truth, which I enjoyed, I imagine this was ahead of its time and has stayed ridiculously relevant to modern society.

For a Classic, I found this to be pretty accessible, but there were still times when I struggled with it. Based on Fitzgerald’s writing style and certain plot points in this book, I can’t technically fault it, but based on my enjoyment levels?.. By the time I finished it I felt more than a little deflated. It wasn’t what I was expecting based on the number of people who RAVE about this novel, and adore it so much. While it didn’t blow me away as much as I expected it to, I have a feeling it may grow on me over time, and I’ll likely reread it to see what else I can glean from these pages.

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Obvious classic, but definitely not my story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2019

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After spending some precious time reading works from this era, I have been trying to stay away from US-based classics telling stories based in the 20th century. I tend to dislike the overall feeling they give me; the way most local authors wrote during this period is definitely not my cup of tea. I, however, started a certain list of classics and finally got to reading this one among others mentioned in the list.
So, here are my two pence on the matter: the book uses smooth, general language and is quite easy to read. I definitely recommend it to ESL students who want to test their knowledge of the era.
I don't know if the version I read is a somehow edited version which doesn't coincide with the original or not; I know this was done often back in the days and not only in the US. What bothers me is how could this turn into the epitome of flapper, of la mode, of fashion and lifestyle when even Gatsby's own lifestyle is barely touched upon in the book. Obviously, I'm misguided by the visual adaptations of the story. Be warned, ye who may end up in my shoes!
The story seems very slow during most of the book, but there are huge leaps at the very last of the pages. I almost missed the huge event (starting vague to eliminate spoiler possibilities, even though it's a classic) because it was written somewhere at the end of a book I found very exhausting.
The last chapters have 1,000% the action of all the previous ones. I found it lacking in parties, vague when it comes to relationships, flat when it comes to character development of secondary characters. The only character amongst these pages who was worth it for me was our protagonist. I guess I expected too much from Gatsby and the ladies.

I am fully aware that writing a somewhat negative review of a classic is a risky endeavor. However, I think honesty, especially in this case, cannot hurt anyone.

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