The Great Gatsby

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: Reprint

Description: 176 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Day and night Jay Gatsbys mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret longing that can never be fulfilled.In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsbys tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.

ISBN: 9780141182636