{"product_id":"the-great-gatsby-9781789432473","title":"The Great Gatsby","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.\" F. Scott Fitzgerald (1923).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eThe first step American fiction has taken since Henry James.\" T. S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.\" F. Scott Fitzgerald, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.\" Fitzgerald F. Scott, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.\" F. Scott Fitzgerald.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most important works in American literature - and, to many, the great American novel.\" -\u003cem\u003e Time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This slim novel of fewer than 50,000 words, a story of secret visions and gaudy revels, of sudden violence and constant envy, shimmers with a magic that readers have long recognised.\" Sarah Churchwell, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is perhaps \"The Great American Novel,\" and its protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is regarded as one of the truly mythic creations in American culture. It is, as Fitzgerald hoped, something new, something extraordinary. The novel is set in Long Island, during the enthusiasm, abandon, and free-flowing illegal liquor of \"the Jazz Age,\" a term coined by Fitzgerald in his earlier collection, \u003cem\u003eTales of the Jazz Age\u003c\/em\u003e. Fitzgerald himself was the quintessential chronicler of The Roaring Twenties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe handsome millionaire Jay Gatsby seems to have everything, but where did his wealth come from, and what is he still in search of? Gatsby's life mirrors Fitzgerald's: they both fell in love, and then struggled to establish themselves financially to prove themselves worthy. Fitzgerald wrote \"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.\" Gatsby was a tragic hero, much like his creator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby \u003c\/em\u003ewas, initially, neither a critical nor commercial success; it was only appreciated after Fitzgerald's early death. This incandescent and magical novel is now near the top of almost every list of \"best novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancis Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/strong\u003e (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He is best known for \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e and for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. Writer Richard Ford calls Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner \"the Three Kings who set the measure for every writer since.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Benediction Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50861898170642,"sku":"9781789432473","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d5760e2-7894-4aa3-8c2a-07db4ba439d8.jpg?v=1776157422","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-gatsby-9781789432473","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}