# The Great Gatsby, Vol. 1

By **F. Scott Fitzgerald**

- ISBN-13: 9780593312919
- Series: [Untitled](https://mybookbandits.com/series/untitled-145)
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Pages: 192
- Published: 5 Jan 2021
- Language: en
- Price: £8.82 (new)
- Categories: Fiction, Classics, Coming of age, Literary

## About this book

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby unfolds in the excess of the Roaring Twenties, as narrator Nick Carraway becomes drawn into the orbit of his enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby. A self-made millionaire famed for lavish Long Island parties, Gatsby hides a consuming fixation beneath his glittering surface. He is desperate to reclaim a lost romance with Daisy Buchanan, a woman now bound to a wealthy, cynical husband.

Nick watches Gatsby’s meticulously crafted identity collide with reality, exposing the rot beneath the Jazz Age glamour. Through spare, lyrical prose, Fitzgerald delivers a haunting dissection of the American Dream’s hollow core. This cornerstone of literary fiction and classic coming-of-age storytelling endures as a stark tragedy of illusion, longing, and ruin.

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