The Great GATSBY

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by an American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel was written in 1925 and is set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City.

Novel illustrates Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan

This novel is inspired by a youthful romance writer Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

After its publication, the book received favorable reviews in general. However, compared to Fitzgerald’s earlier novels, Gatsby was a commercial disappointment

During World War II, the Council on Books in Wartime distributed free copies of this novel to American soldiers serving overseas. And the novel experienced an abrupt rush in popularity. This new-found popularity launched a critical and scholarly re-examination. Eventually this work of Fitzgerald became a core part of most American high school curricula and a part of American popular culture. In the subsequent decades, numerous stage and film adaptations of the novel have been made

Gatsby continues to attract attention. The novel is widely considered to be a literary masterpiece and one of the great American Novels