Quicklet on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

ABOUT THE BOOK

F. Scott Fitzgeralds grand story about disillusionment and hopeless love has charmed generations of readers and critics, but perhaps The Great Gatsbys greatest fan was its author. He told his editor, I think my novel is about the best American novel ever written.

So Fitzgerald is not the most humble man, but as the author of a novel which both chastises and celebrates humanitys vices, that fact should not come as such a surprise. The Great Gatsby, though a rather slender book...