The Great Gatsby

New York in the Roaring Twenties The enigmatic Jay Gatsby seems to possess everything money can buy. Night after night, his fairy-tale estate on Long Island blazes with music, champagne, and the glittering crowd of the citys elite. Yet Gatsby himself remains strangely apartwatching the decadent pageant with a single desire that outshines all his splendour: that Daisy, his great love, will one day walk through his door. F. Scott Fitzgeralds masterpiece of American literature opens a dazzling view onto the rich and their ritualsand exposes, beneath the glamour, the emptiness and drift of a life devoted to display. In this edition The Great Gatsby can be rediscovered in all its drama and tragedy, its elegance, andno lessits sly, unsettling wit.

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