**The twentieth-century masterpiece, the authoritative new edition**
With a new foreword by Jesmyn Ward, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted Sing, Unburied, Sing
âThere was music from my neighbourâs house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.â
Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisyâs affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century.
Praise for The Great Gatsby:
âA classic, perhaps the supreme American novelâ Sunday Times
âMore than an American classic; itâs become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dreamâ Guardian
âF. Scott Fitzgerald was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generationâ New York Times
âAn unquiet masterpiece whose mystery never fails to exert its powerâ Robert McCrum, Observer, âThe 100 Best Novels in Englishâ