The Great Gatsby (PREMIUM PAPERBACK, PENGUIN INDIA)
New York, 1922. The jazz age is in full swing, a world of champagne, excess, and glittering parties that never seem to end. At the centre of it all stands Jay Gatsby, a fabulously wealthy and deeply mysterious figure, throwing spectacular soirées at his Long Island estate night after night. Yet for all his fortune, something essential eludes him. Her name is Daisy Buchanan, a luminous socialite from his past, now married to another man and apparently beyond his reach. Gatsby's opulent gatherings are, in truth, elaborate performances staged for an audience of one. Beneath the surface glamour, he's consumed by a longing he can neither shake nor satisfy. Then Nick Carraway arrives next door. A quiet, observant young man who also happens to be Daisy's cousin, Nick becomes the unexpected bridge between two people separated by time, circumstance, and the peculiar cruelties of class. What follows is a story of obsession and self-destruction, a portrait of a man who mistakes desire for destiny. Fitzgerald writes with cool, precise beauty, capturing both the seductive pull of the American dream and its hollow core. It's a short novel that leaves a long shadow, and one of those rare books that genuinely rewards re-reading.
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0143454212
- Pages: 144 pages