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  • Published: 31 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781784877088
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99

The Great Gatsby




VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'

The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?

VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

  • Published: 31 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781784877088
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99

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Praise for The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression.

The Times

Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true "business": "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty"

The Times

It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life

Daily Telegraph

The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight

Mirror

His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them all

Los Angeles Times

His glorious prose captures ephemeral glamour magically

Independent

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings

Read it again, forever

Boston Globe

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