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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
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DETAILS :
- Author : F Scott Fitzgerald
- Publisher : Pharos Books
- Publication Date : 30 January 2023
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 152 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9391384358
- ISBN-13 : 9789391384357
- Item Weight : 350 g
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Great Gatsby (1925) by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, set during the Jazz Age, depicts life in America during the Roaring Twenties. It chiefly deals with the life of a mysterious young millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and his fascination with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway, the narrator, attends one of the parties hosted by Jay Gatsby. He is struck by the apparent absence of Gatsby during the party and the dark theories that his guests have about Gatsby's past. Nick and Gatsby become friends and Gatsby asks him to invite his cousin Daisy to one of his parties. Five years ago, in Louisville, Gatsby and Daisy were in love, but he went away to fight in the war and she married Tom Buchanan. Gatsby has now bought his house on West Egg so he could be across the water from her. This exciting story takes an overwhelming turn when Gatsby and Daisy meet again.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'.
In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.
Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation" ... he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'
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