The Great Gatsby is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He studied at Princeton University before joining the army in 1917. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic relationship and subsequent breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces. F. Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.
Not only a page-turner and a heartbreaker, it's one of the most
quintessentially American novels ever written
*Time*
The American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this
country's writers
*Washington Post*
The most perfectly crafted work of fiction to have come out of
America
*Professor Tony Tanner*
He (F Scott Fitzgerald) was better than he knew, for in fact and in
the literary sense he invented a "generation"
*New York Times*
Not only a page-turner and a heartbreaker, it's one of the most
quintessentially American novels ever written * Time *
The American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any
of this country's writers * Washington Post *
The most perfectly crafted work of fiction to have come out of
America -- Professor Tony Tanner
He (F Scott Fitzgerald) was better than he knew, for in fact and in
the literary sense he invented a "generation" * New York Times *
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