WE ARE PRESENTING THE NEW EDITION OF ‘THE GREAT GATSBY’ WITH ADDED ‘NEW ILLUSTRATIONS’ AND ‘DETAILED BIOGRAPHY’ TO OUR READERS AS AN ‘E-KITAP PROJESI & CHEAPEST BOOKS’.The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.Fitzgerald—inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island’s north shore—began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, ‘something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.’ Progress was slow, with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924.The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20, 000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades.Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title ‘Great American Novel’. In 1998 the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century’s best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period.
About the author
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as ‘grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken’.In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that ‘He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a ‘generation’ … he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.’
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