The Great Gatsby
[The Great Gatsby]
Year:
1925
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Public:
Publisher:
Penguin
Year of publication:
2000
Pages:
177
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The mysterious and dodgy financier Jay Gatsby has a romantic and destructive crush on Daisy Buchanan, set against the backdrop of Long Island, New York, where glamour and squalor are in equal measure. Gatsby's neighbour, Nick Carraway, tells the story of this age of excess - heavy drinking, gambling, fast cars, adultery and murder.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 and died young in 1940. He died soon after this wife descended into mental illness. This is regarded to be his finest work but dwells on the seedier side of life at the time.
C.C. (U.K., 2016)