The Great Gatsby (Annotated): 96th Anniversary Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Medlar Classic Books

Overview

#1 OF THE TOP 10 NOVELS OF ALL TIME - the story that has thrilled millions and millions of readers with colorful tales of fun, madness, love, and murder. Now you, too, can return to experience the famous Prohibition era in the third person.
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- 96th Anniversary Edition -

- this is the original version by fitzgerald with the addition of an annotated literary critique at the end to better explain the meaning of this book.

The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) is a novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald published for the first time in New York on April 10, 1925, and defined by T.S. Eliot as "the first step forward made by American fiction since Henry James".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781668553145
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/26/2021
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

“This is a book that endures, generation after generation because every time a reader returns we discover new revelations, new insights, new burning bits of language. Read and bear witness to the story’s permanence, its robust heart.” – JESMYN WARD

The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, a novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald first published in New York on April 10,1925 and described by T.S. Eliot as <>.

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generation of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s novels include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender IS the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University

Editorial Reviews

I cannot but admit The Great Gatsby was a far more exhilarating read than I had expected it to be, its tight composition and restless pace a remarkable contrast with the muddled slow mess

Amazon.com - Jennifer M. Foster

Casual, self-absorbed decadence, the evaporation of social grace, money calling all the shots and memories of the past holding people hostage from the future that lies before them. Yes, Mr. Fitzgerald has nailed it and written one of THE great American novels.

Amazon.com - Chris Nolaben

Oh Gatsby, you old sport, you poor semi-delusionally hopeful dreamer with "some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life", focusing your whole self and soul on that elusive money-colored green light - a dream that shatters just when you are *this* close to it.

Amazon.com - Molly Middlecook