Great Gatsby

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Harper Collins, Apr 9, 2013 - Fiction - 195 pages

The Great Gatsby is the tale of Nick Carraway and his mysterious neighbour Jay Gatsby. Drawing Nick into the world of lavish parties that defined the roaring twenties, the charismatic millionaire Gatsby will stop at nothing and spare no expense to capture the heart of his beloved, Daisy, but in so doing sets in motion tragedy that will consume them all.

A literary classic, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel and was names as the second best novel of the twentieth century by The Modern Library. The Great Gatsby has been adapted for film, television, and the stage.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.

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