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: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the glittering, morally hollow world of 1920s Long Island, a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties in pursuit of a single, impossible dream — to reclaim the love of the luminous Daisy Buchanan. Narrated by the quietly observant Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby chronicles the collision of old money and new wealth, illusion and reality, against the backdrop of a Jazz Age America intoxicated by excess and blinded by ambition. F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterwork stands as one of the most searingly precise portraits of the American Dream ever committed to the page, illustrating how the pursuit of reinvention can corrupt the very soul it seeks to elevate. Written with a prose style that is simultaneously lyrical and devastating, the novel presents Gatsby's romantic obsession as both deeply human and tragically doomed. Fitzgerald argues, with surgical elegance, that the past cannot be repeated — no matter how green the light at the end of the dock appears. Decades after its 1925 publication, the novel's final image of boats beating ceaselessly against the current remains one of literature's most haunting and indelible conclusions.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the glittering, morally hollow world of 1920s Long Island, a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties in pursuit of a single, impossible dream — to reclaim the love of the luminous Daisy Buchanan. Narrated by the quietly observant Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby chronicles the collision of old money and new wealth, illusion and reality, against the backdrop of a Jazz Age America intoxicated by excess and blinded by ambition. F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterwork stands as one of the most searingly precise portraits of the American Dream ever committed to the page, illustrating how the pursuit of reinvention can corrupt the very soul it seeks to elevate. Written with a prose style that is simultaneously lyrical and devastating, the novel presents Gatsby's romantic obsession as both deeply human and tragically doomed. Fitzgerald argues, with surgical elegance, that the past cannot be repeated — no matter how green the light at the end of the dock appears. Decades after its 1925 publication, the novel's final image of boats beating ceaselessly against the current remains one of literature's most haunting and indelible conclusions.