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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) is widely considered the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. He wrote many short stories and four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously.
The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of
American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure,
corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society
intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great
Depression.
*The Times*
Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the
Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world
to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the
Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and
corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American
success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration,
disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the
materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald
calls America's true "business": "the service of a vast, vulgar,
and meretricious beauty"
*The Times*
It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern
America, and by extension of modern life
*Daily Telegraph*
The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish
parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an
intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days
of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very
eloquent insight
*Mirror*
His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost
cause of them all
*Los Angeles Times*
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