An undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, now in a stunning, deluxe package perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike. This deluxe version of The Great Gatsby will join the ranks of the Harper Perennial Modern Classics Deluxe editions, and will be a necessary addition to any classics lover's shelf. It will have a gorgeous cover design with foil stamping, deckle-edged paper, and French flaps. Penned in the "roaring twenties," the novel continues to be the subject of numerous film and stage adaptations and has become a fixture in the American classroom. This lean, dangerously propulsive tale of the seduction of glitz and glamour continues to be relevant almost a century after it was published.

“A stunning illumination of the world, not only a miracle of talent but a triumph of technique.” 

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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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An undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, this stunning, lavishly designed new edition of The Great Gatsby is perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike.

In his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott ****Fitzgerald explores the paradisiacal illusions of the ****post?World War One generation, only to shatter ****them. At the heart of this piercing and defining ****novel of the Jazz Age is the eponymous romantic, ****holding tight to the past while pursuing the elusive future of his dreams.

Living in a glittering mansion on Long Island, Jay Gatsby is famous for his hedonistic parties that draw strangers like moths to his starlight, even as sensational rumors surround him and his fortune. With the arrival of his new neighbor, Nick Carraway, a modest bond salesman from the Midwest, Gatsby finds a confidant for his burdensome secrets and an arbiter who can help him obtain what he most desires?the luminous socialite across the bay.

She is Daisy, the lost and treasured love of his youth, a self-absorbed beauty unsettled in a marriage with the unfaithful Tom Buchanan. Winning her back is the finest and surest of Gatsby's illusions?a chance to rewrite the past and reclaim the great passion Gatsby is tragically doomed to pursue.

One of the most renowned works of American literature, a tale of ambition, desolation, and blinded love, Fitzgerald's seminal classic will continue to resonate with generations of readers to come.