The Great Gatsby - by F Scott Fitzgerald (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved classic, now available in a stunningly designed collector's edition.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career and is a true classic of twentieth-century literature. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers and now, lifelong Gatsby fans and new readers alike will be enchanted by this special edition, expanding the audience for this great American novel.

Review Quotes

"Brings the entire story to life in such vivid, quick-turning pages. The parties, the dresses, the mansions, the green light--all illustrated here beautifully. And it still packs the wallop that the original does!" --Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six

"Morton's eye for fashion and interior decor aids the reader in becoming fully immersed in the era, while Fordham's economical reworking of the original text reflects a deep intimacy with Fitzgerald's work." --Shelf Awareness

"Fordham retains much of Fitzgerald's singular prose, which Morton illustrates with an eye toward period detail and restraint that blossoms into expressive tableaus of vivid color at key moments. Here, Fitzgerald's incisive exposé of the shallow excesses of the elite feels startlingly fresh nearly 100 years after its original publication." --Library Journal

"[Fordham] does a fine job distilling the haunted romanticism of Fitzgerald's narrative. . . . The clean, Art Deco-like backgrounds by Morton evoke the beguiling but ultimately empty nouveau-riche milieu of Gatsby and the Buchanans in suburban Long Island, as well as the dreary gray world of Myrtle and George Wilson in working-class Queens. . . . the fidelity of this graphic adaptation should satisfy Fitzgerald devotees." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's novels include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.