EAN: 9780143138747

FITZGERALD F SCOTT THE GREAT GATSBY

For the centennial of its publication  a new edition of one of the most iconic of American
novels  including four of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories about wealth and class from his
collection All the Sad Young Men and an introduction by Min Jin Lee  the New York Times
bestselling author of Pachinko   One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100
Years  A Penguin Classic   Young  handsome  and fabulously rich  Jay Gatsby seems to have
everything. But at his mansion east of New York City  where the party never seems to end  one
thing will always be out of reach: 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 centennial 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 includes an introduction addressing how gender 
race  class  and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream  four beloved stories
from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection  All the Sad Young Men —“Winter Dreams ” “The Rich Boy ” “The
Sensible Thing ” and “Absolution”  and suggestions of a wide variety of multimedia resources
for exploring the novel’s themes.

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