About the Book: The Great Gatsby
The twentieth-century masterpiece, the authoritative new edition
`There was music from my neighbours 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 Daisys
affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgeralds