# The Great Gatsby

> F. Scott Fitzgerald's shimmering, sorrowful masterpiece of the Jazz Age. Jay Gatsby's doomed pursuit of a golden dream unfolds through Nick Carraway's watchful eyes. A near-perfect American novel about longing, wealth, and illusion.

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## About
Few novels have distilled a whole era into so slender a volume, and fewer still have made the ache of longing shimmer so beautifully on the page. Fitzgerald's book is small in size and vast in reach.What it's aboutNick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, falls into the orbit of his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a man of enormous wealth and lavish parties whose origins nobody quite knows. As Nick is drawn deeper into Gatsby's world, he comes to understand the single obsessive hope that drives everything the man has built, and to witness what happens when a dream is pinned upon a person and a past that cannot bear the weight. The story unfolds in the glittering, uneasy summer of the Jazz Age, narrated with a rueful tenderness that colors every scene.ThemesThe American dream, and its corruption by money and illusion, lies at the novel's heart. Fitzgerald explores longing and the impossibility of repeating the past, the hollowness beneath wealth and glamour, and the way desire can transfigure an ordinary object into something impossibly luminous. Class, carelessness, and moral decay move beneath the surface glitter, giving the book its lasting melancholy.Why it still mattersThis has become perhaps the defining novel of American aspiration and disillusion, its images and its final lines woven permanently into the culture. Fitzgerald's prose remains a marvel of economy and beauty, and the questions the book raises about wealth, dreaming, and self-invention have only grown more pointed. It rewards rereading at every stage of a life.Who it's forAnyone who loves beautiful prose, anyone drawn to stories of longing and lost illusion, and every reader of American literature should know this book, and most will return to it more than once.

Sources and references
Verified references for this edition: Open Library, WorldCat, F. Scott Fitzgerald on Wikipedia.

## Specifications
- author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- publisher: DotBooks
- imprint: DotBooks
- synopsis: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz-age classic follows Nick Carraway into the glittering orbit of Jay Gatsby, where wealth, longing, illusion, and loss collide.
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 210
- format: paperback
- oclc: 49990905
- openlibrary: OL468431W