The Great Gatsby
A glittering dreamer's tragic pursuit of love and the American Dream's ruin.
About this book
Set against the feverish glamour of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway, a young bond salesman who becomes entangled with his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a fabulously wealthy man known for his extravagant parties and secretive tenderness. Fitzgerald's prose shimmers with wit and melancholy as he probes desire, reinvention, and the corrosive gap between appearance and reality—an intimate study of love, ambition, social ascent, and the myth of the American Dream. At once intoxicating and unsettling, the novel returns the glittering enticements of glamour and success to their fraught human costs, leaving readers to reckon with longing, illusion, and the price we pay to chase them.