The Great Gatsby

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“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set during the Jazz Age on Long Island, the story depicts Nick Carraway’s interactions with the enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby’s obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

The novel was inspired by Fitzgerald’s youthful romance with socialite Ginevra King and the extravagant parties he attended on Long Island’s North Shore in 1922. After moving to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. Fitzgerald submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who encouraged him to revise the work over the following winter. After making the revisions, Fitzgerald was pleased with the text but remained uncertain about the title and considered several alternatives. The final title he desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. Painter Francis Cugat’s final cover design impressed Fitzgerald, who incorporated a visual element from the art into the novel.

Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted into a film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while contemporary scholars emphasize the novel’s treatment of social class, inherited wealth versus the self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical view of the American Dream. The Great Gatsby is widely considered a literary masterpiece and a strong contender for the title of the Great American Novel.

A Best Seller Classic that belongs in every booklover’s library.