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Set during the Roaring Twenties against a backdrop of jazz music, bootlegging, and lavish parties, The Great Gatsby is the story of Midwesterner Nick Carraway's introduction to the decadent world of his fabulously wealthy neighbour Jay Gatsby, whose thirst for riches is matched only by his tragic pursuit of the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. A true literary classic that unfolds at a time when "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century (The New York Times).

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, 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. Fitzgera...
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Title:The Great GatsbyFormat:PaperbackProduct dimensions:224 pages, 8 X 5.31 X 0.5 inShipping dimensions:224 pages, 8 X 5.31 X 0.5 inPublished:June 11, 2013Publisher:HarperCollinsLanguage:English

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:

ISBN - 10:1443428221

ISBN - 13:9781443428224

Appropriate for ages: All ages

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