The Great Gatsby

Author(s): Scott F. Fitzgerald

Fiction

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.


Product Information

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.<

Contains notes and an extensive apparatus on Fitzgerald's life and works.

General Fields

  • : 9781847492586
  • : Alma Classics
  • : Alma Classics
  • : 0.31
  • : August 2011
  • : 195mm X 130mm X 19mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Scott F. Fitzgerald
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 813.52
  • : 256