The Great Gatsby

Generally considered to be F.Scott Fitzgerald`s finest novel, `The Great Gatsby` is a consummate summary of the `roaring twenties` and a devastating expose of the `Jazz Age`. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into...

Generally considered to be F.Scott Fitzgerald`s finest novel, `The Great Gatsby` is a consummate summary of the `roaring twenties` and a devastating expose of the `Jazz Age`. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into...

Generally considered to be F.Scott Fitzgerald`s finest novel, `The Great Gatsby` is a consummate summary of the `roaring twenties` and a devastating expose of the `Jazz Age`. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into...

F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, his third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." He committed all his imaginative resources to the project. This exemplary novel has been acclaimed by generations of readers. It is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s, the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.

F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, his third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." He committed all his imaginative resources to the project. This exemplary novel has been acclaimed by generations of readers. It is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s, the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald’s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era.After the war, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to try and entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion.Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald’s succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits.

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, he longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion.

ЗНАМЕНИТАЯ КЛАССИКА НА АНГЛИЙСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens. Tragedy looms in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд — американский классик мировой литературы. Писатель, ярко и беспристрастно отразивший безумную жизнь 20-х годов. Он и сам был плотью от плоти той легендарной эпохи. Но эксцентричность и внешняя позолота канули в прошлое, и в настоящем остались его бессмертные книги. «Великий Гэтсби» — самый известный роман Фрэнсиса Фицджеральда, ставший символом «века джаза». Америка, 1925 г., время «сухого закона» и гангстерских разборок, ярких огней и яркой жизни. Но для Джея Гэтсби воплощение американской мечты обернулось настоящей трагедией. А путь наверх, несмотря на славу и богатство, привел к тотальному крушению. Ведь каждый из нас в первую очередь стремится не к материальным благам, а к любви, истинной и вечной…

ЗНАМЕНИТАЯ КЛАССИКА НА АНГЛИЙСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens. Tragedy looms in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд — американский классик мировой литературы. Писатель, ярко и беспристрастно отразивший безумную жизнь 20-х годов. Он и сам был плотью от плоти той легендарной эпохи. Но эксцентричность и внешняя позолота канули в прошлое, и в настоящем остались его бессмертные книги. «Великий Гэтсби» — самый известный роман Фрэнсиса Фицджеральда, ставший символом «века джаза». Америка, 1925 г., время «сухого закона» и гангстерских разборок, ярких огней и яркой жизни. Но для Джея Гэтсби воплощение американской мечты обернулось настоящей трагедией. А путь наверх, несмотря на славу и богатство, привел к тотальному крушению. Ведь каждый из нас в первую очередь стремится не к материальным благам, а к любви, истинной и вечной…

The Great Gatsby (1925) follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan and explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess. .