About this book
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel published in 1925. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, it follows narrator Nick Carraway as he becomes drawn into the world of his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a wealthy millionaire who throws extravagant parties. Gatsby harbors an obsession with reuniting with Daisy Buchanan, a woman from his past now married to the affluent Tom. The story captures the glamour, excess, and moral complexities of 1920s America.
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- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896–1940
- Written
- 1925
- Form
- Novel
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Novels, Classics of Literature, American Literature
- Reading level
- Easy to read
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