The Great Gatsby
A lonely dreamer’s pursuit of love and status unravels beneath glittering, hollow fortunes.
About this book
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's glittering chronicle of the Jazz Age, narrator Nick Carraway is drawn into the magnetic world of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire whose opulent parties and relentless pursuit of an impossible dream illuminate the dazzling — and decaying — promises of American prosperity. As Carraway observes from the fringes of Long Island's summer society, Fitzgerald spins a razor-sharp meditation on desire, identity, and the corrosive power of illusion, where love and ambition collide against a backdrop of excess and moral ambiguity. Stylish, elegiac, and slyly satirical, it’s a compact novel that lingers long after the last page.