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 dazzling veneer of 1920s Long Island, The Great Gatsby chronicles the obsessive pursuit of a dream that was rotten at its core — a portrait of ambition, desire, and moral decay set against the glittering excess of the Jazz Age. Narrated by the quietly observant Nick Carraway, the novel draws us into the orbit of the enigmatic Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who throws lavish parties in a desperate bid to recapture the love of the luminous, unattainable Daisy Buchanan. F. Scott Fitzgerald crafts a searing indictment of the American Dream, exposing the hollow extravagance and careless cruelty that lurk beneath its gilded surface. His prose is at once lyrical and precise, weaving together romanticism and disillusionment with a mastery that has secured this novel's place as one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. First published in 1925 and now presented in this elegant Harper Muse Pretty Book Collection edition, it remains an essential work — one that continues to ask whether reinvention is an act of hope or a magnificent, fatal illusion.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Beneath the dazzling veneer of 1920s Long Island, The Great Gatsby chronicles the obsessive pursuit of a dream that was rotten at its core — a portrait of ambition, desire, and moral decay set against the glittering excess of the Jazz Age. Narrated by the quietly observant Nick Carraway, the novel draws us into the orbit of the enigmatic Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who throws lavish parties in a desperate bid to recapture the love of the luminous, unattainable Daisy Buchanan. F. Scott Fitzgerald crafts a searing indictment of the American Dream, exposing the hollow extravagance and careless cruelty that lurk beneath its gilded surface. His prose is at once lyrical and precise, weaving together romanticism and disillusionment with a mastery that has secured this novel's place as one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. First published in 1925 and now presented in this elegant Harper Muse Pretty Book Collection edition, it remains an essential work — one that continues to ask whether reinvention is an act of hope or a magnificent, fatal illusion.