The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, The Great Gatsby, is often regarded as his greatest achievement. This classic novel of the Jazz Age, first published in 1925, has been praised by generations of readers. It is a brilliantly created account of America in the 1920s, telling of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of opulent parties on Long Island at a time when “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” as The New York Times put it.