The Great Gatsby
The Definitive Editorial Edition with Thematic Notes
Authored by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Archival Synopsis
A sublime portrait of the Roaring Twenties exploring decadence, idealism, and the elusive nature of the American Dream through the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his obsessive passion for Daisy Buchanan.
“Fitzgerald's prose achieves a rare poetic equilibrium. Every sentence is weighted with melancholy, capturing the tragic gulf between human aspiration and the irreversible drift of time.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Master of the Jazz Age • Modernism / Lost Generation
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald became the quintessential voice of the Lost Generation. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald captured both the intoxicating shimmer and the tragic shallowness of the American Jazz Age. His third novel, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, stands as a triumph of American literary modernism—a lyrical critique of the American Dream distilled into flawless prose and evocative symbolism.