Name: The Great Gatsby
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Author: John Grisham
ISBN: 9780593312919

Type

Physical Book

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Introduction by

John Grisham

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.3 x 10.7 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

9780593312919

ISBN13

9780593312919

Synopsis "The Great Gatsby "

For generations of enthralled readers, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. To F. Scott Fitzgerald's bemused narrator, Nick Carraway, Gatsby appears to have emerged out of nowhere, evading questions about his murky past and throwing dazzling parties at his luxurious mansion. Nick finds something both appalling and appealing in the intensity of his new neighbor's ambition, and his fascination grows when he discovers that Gatsby is obsessed by a long-lost love, Daisy Buchanan. But Daisy and her wealthy husband are cynical and careless people, and as Gatsby's dream collides with reality, Nick is witness to the violence and tragedy that result. The Great Gatsby's remarkable staying power is owed to the lyrical freshness of its storytelling and to the way it illuminates the hollow core of the glittering American dream. With a new introduction by John Grisham.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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John Grisham

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John Grisham is the author of forty-eight books that have consecutively become number 1 on the US bestseller lists and have been translated into almost fifty languages. His most recent works include The Guardians, The Reckoning, The Whistler, and The Tumor, which is being adapted as a series by HBO. Grisham has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction twice and has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. When he is not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two organizations dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted people. Many of his novels explore deeply ingrained issues in the American justice system. John lives on a farm in Virginia.

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