The Great American Novel, complete and unabridged.
Summer, 1922. Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, and rents a small house beside the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire whose glittering parties draw half of New York. Across the bay lives Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan, with her wealthy, restless husband, Tom. At the end of Daisy’s dock burns a single green light, and Gatsby has been watching it for years.
As Nick is drawn into Gatsby’s world, he uncovers the truth behind the legend: a man who reinvented himself completely to win back the woman he loved. But in the heat of one long summer, old money and new, love and illusion, collide with tragic force.
First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece remains the defining portrait of the Jazz Age and of the American Dream itself: its promise, its glamour and its cost. Its closing lines are among the most celebrated in all of literature.
In this edition:
The complete text of the original 1925 editionNine chapters, each opening with its titleSteady, clear narration paced for easy listening“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
