The Great Gatsby

He has built a fortune and filled his mansion with strangers. But everything Jay Gatsby wants lies just across the water.

Set in the summer of 1922, The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway into the wealthy enclaves of Long Island, where his mysterious neighbor gives lavish parties while longing for Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby believes that money, devotion, and sheer determination can restore their lost romance. Daisy's marriage to Tom Buchanan stands between his imagined future and the life she actually leads.

F. Scott Fitzgerald turns this intimate drama into a searching portrait of the American Dream. Behind the glitter of West Egg, East Egg, and New York lie rigid class divisions, careless privilege, and desires that wealth cannot satisfy. Nick's observant, increasingly troubled narration gives the novel both its allure and its unease. Its precise prose and memorable symbols make a brief story of longing speak to enduring questions about status, self-invention, and the temptation to confuse success with happiness.

What readers find inside:
A dream of lost love - Gatsby's devotion to Daisy becomes an attempt to recover a past that may never have matched his hopes.Old money and new wealth - The contrast between East Egg and West Egg exposes the social barriers a fortune cannot erase.A watchful narrator - Nick Carraway draws close to Gatsby while questioning the conduct of the world around him.Jazz Age spectacle - Crowded parties and luxurious homes offer a dazzling surface for a story of loneliness and moral evasion.Lasting symbols - The green light and the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg deepen the novel's exploration of desire, judgment, and illusion.
A rewarding choice for readers of American classics, tragic love stories, and fiction about wealth and class, this novel remains unsettling wherever people measure their worth by what they possess.

Step into Gatsby's glittering world and discover what remains when the party ends.