The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

Here is the complete text of the novel with the followings annotations:

* Historical context:

The Great Gatsby brilliantly invokes The ambience of The Jazz Age (a phrase coined by Fitzgerald) or the Roaring Twenties. The economic boom of postwar America, the new jazz music, and also also the free - flowing illegal liquor were all part of the boom.

Literary analysis:

"The Great Gatsby" is a glance at the lives of Americans, especially those that reside on the East Coast. It's a masterful depiction of the battle between "old money" depicted by Daisy and Tom Buchanan and the vulgar and crazy presentation of wealth as represented by Jay Gatsby.

*Biographical Information:

Best Works of F Scott Fitzgerald

Here are some of the prominent works of the American author:

1. This Side of Paradise, 1920

2. The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

3. The Great Gatsby (1925)

4. Tender Is the Night (1934)

Genre: Fiction / Classics (fancy, right?)