The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

A true classic of twentieth-century literature--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/01/1996
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.31w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780684830421

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.3
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 708 / Great Gatsby


Review Citation(s):
Newsweek 12/17/2007 pg. 14
Village Voice 12/03/2008 pg. 39
Newsweek 08/09/2010 pg. 54

About the Author
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: - F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.