A collectible hardcover edition of one of the great American novels-and one of America's most
popular-featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee the New York Times bestselling author of
Pachinko A Penguin Vitae Edition Young handsome and fabulously rich Jay Gatsby seems to
have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City in West Egg Long Island where the
party seems never to end he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd watching and
waiting as speculation swirls around him-that he's a bootlegger that he was a German spy
during the war that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent
orbit he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of the enigmatic Gatsby for whom one
thing will always be out of reach: Nick's cousin the married Daisy Buchanan whose house is
visible from Gatsby's just across the bay. A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a
satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status The Great Gatsby is a novel whose
power remains undiminished after a century. This edition based on scholarship dating back to
the novel's first publication in 1925 restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original
American classic he envisioned and features an introduction addressing how gender race class
and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream. Penguin Vitae-loosely translated
as "Penguin of one's life"-is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a
dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of
classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that
have shaped the course of their lives and welcomes new readers to discover these literary
gifts of personal inspiration intellectual engagement and creative originality. Story
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