{"product_id":"the-great-gatsby-9780143136347","title":"The Great Gatsby","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collectible hardcover edition of one of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePachinko\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe basis for the Broadway musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Vitae Edition \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoung, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party seems never to end, he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls around him--that he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the war, that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of the enigmatic Gatsby, for whom one thing will always be out of reach: Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from Gatsby's just across the bay. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century. This edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Vitae--loosely translated as \"Penguin of one's life\"--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e (1896-1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the army. He is said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself defined as \"grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.\" In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre; their traumatic marriage and her subsequent breakdowns became the leading influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/i\u003e; six volumes of short stories; and \u003ci\u003eThe Crack-Up, \u003c\/i\u003e a selection of autobiographical pieces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMin Jin Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling novel \u003ci\u003ePachinko\u003c\/i\u003e--a finalist for the National Book Award and one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e100 Best Books of the 21st Century--and of the nationally bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eFree Food for Millionaires\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence, the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature from South Korea, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and has been inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She lives in New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip McGowan\u003c\/b\u003e (editor, notes) is an executive board member of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, the president of the European Association for American Studies, a professor of American literature at Queen's University Belfast, and a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719354126610,"sku":"9780143136347","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_85252073-3305-4e4e-8491-8db7dc01f581.jpg?v=1776157048","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-gatsby-9780143136347","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}