Name: The Great Gatsby: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
SKU: 53126184
Price: 298.00 ZAR
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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott ; Lee, Min Jin ; McGowan, Philip
ISBN: 9780143136125

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The Great Gatsby: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Introduction by

Illustrated by

Publisher

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x14.5x1.5 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9780143136125

Synopsis "The Great Gatsby: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)"

A must-have new edition of one of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and a striking new cover that brings the quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties into the 2020s A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Young, 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 never seems 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. A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby 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. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(Author)

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, Minnesota, September 24, 1896-Hollywood, California, December 21, 1940) was a military officer, host, novelist, and American writer, widely known as one of the finest authors of the 20th century, whose works are paradigmatic of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the twenties.

He wrote five novels: The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Last Tycoon, which, although unfinished, was published after his death. He also wrote numerous short stories, many of which deal with youth and promise, age and despair.

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Min Jin Lee

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Min Jin Lee is a Korean-American writer and journalist. Her first novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was one of the "10 Best Novels of the Year" for The Times, NPR’s Fresh Air, and USA Today. She has written for the New York Times, Condé Nast, The Times, Vogue, and Wall Street Journal, among others. Lee is a member of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She is a writer-in-residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild.

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