The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

A gorgeous clothbound edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the Jazz Age, with an afterword by David Stuart Davies.

Fitzgerald's slim tale of the jazz age became the most celebrated and beloved novel in the American canonIt's more than an American classic; it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream -- Jay McInerney * The Observer *
Fitzgerald’s novel is a portal to the savage heart of the human spirit, affords a glimpse at our humanity and wonders at our enormous capacity to dream, to imagine, to hope and to persevere -- Anne O’Neill * The Irish Times *

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.

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ISBN 13	9781509826360
ISBN 10	150982636X
Title	The Great Gatsby
Author	F Scott Fitzgerald
Series	Macmillan Collector's Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2016-09-08
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.