Amid the glitter and excess of the Roaring Twenties, mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby pursues the unattainable Daisy Buchanan, driven by love and illusion. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the story exposes the emptiness beneath wealth and glamour. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a poignant critique of the American Dream, exploring obsession, identity, and the pursuit of meaning in a material world.
Date: 1925 (United States)
Length: ~177 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~30.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance
"The first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James" — T.S. Eliot, Nobel Prize-winning poet and critic
"A great work of art" — Lionel Trilling, influential American literary critic
"Fitzgerald was better than he knew" — Edmund Wilson, prominent critic and Fitzgerald's friend
"A classic of twentieth-century literature" — John Updike, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
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