The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author?s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald?s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan-and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald?s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted ?gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,? it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.ReviewJames Dickey Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and wakingAbout the AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel,This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald?s masterpieces includeThe Beautiful and Damned,The Great Gatsby, andTender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working onThe Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald?s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.