The Great Gatsby
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Beneath the glittering surface of 1920s Long Island lies a world of obsession, illusion, and moral decay — and no one embodies this duality more completely than the enigmatic Jay Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby chronicles the tragic pursuit of the American Dream through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a Midwestern transplant drawn into the orbit of his fabulously wealthy neighbour, whose lavish parties and mysterious origins conceal a singular, consuming obsession: the recapture of a lost love named Daisy Buchanan. Set against the jazz-soaked excess of the Roaring Twenties, the novel presents a devastating portrait of a society drunk on wealth and hollow aspiration. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American novels ever written, The Great Gatsby stands as Fitzgerald's most precise and luminous work, its prose shimmering with poetic intensity and ironic detachment. The novel argues, with quiet ferocity, that the American Dream is not a promise but a seduction — beautiful, fleeting, and ultimately corrupt. This illustrated edition, brought to life by the artwork of Bruce Dean and produced by the prestigious Franklin Library, lends a further grandeur to a text that has never ceased to haunt its readers. One cannot help but wonder: in striving to repeat the past, what irreplaceable part of ourselves do we destroy?
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Beneath the glittering surface of 1920s Long Island lies a world of obsession, illusion, and moral decay — and no one embodies this duality more completely than the enigmatic Jay Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby chronicles the tragic pursuit of the American Dream through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a Midwestern transplant drawn into the orbit of his fabulously wealthy neighbour, whose lavish parties and mysterious origins conceal a singular, consuming obsession: the recapture of a lost love named Daisy Buchanan. Set against the jazz-soaked excess of the Roaring Twenties, the novel presents a devastating portrait of a society drunk on wealth and hollow aspiration. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American novels ever written, The Great Gatsby stands as Fitzgerald's most precise and luminous work, its prose shimmering with poetic intensity and ironic detachment. The novel argues, with quiet ferocity, that the American Dream is not a promise but a seduction — beautiful, fleeting, and ultimately corrupt. This illustrated edition, brought to life by the artwork of Bruce Dean and produced by the prestigious Franklin Library, lends a further grandeur to a text that has never ceased to haunt its readers. One cannot help but wonder: in striving to repeat the past, what irreplaceable part of ourselves do we destroy?