The Great Gatsby

Set on Long Island in the summer of 1922, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate who finds himself drawn into the orbit of his mysterious neighbour Jay Gatsby, a fabulously wealthy man who throws legendary parties and nurses a consuming obsession with Nick’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s doomed pursuit to dissect the corruption lurking beneath the glittering surface of the American Dream: the carelessness of the very rich, the impossibility of recapturing the past, and the moral hollowness of a society built on illusion and money. Beautifully written and endlessly resonant, The Great Gatsby is one of the finest American novels ever produced.