F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies.

The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman he has waited for all his life. Little does he know that his infatuation will lead to tragedy and end in murder.

Produktdetails

• Macmillan Collector's Library 55
• Verlag: CRW Publishing / Macmillan Collector's Library
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 73085
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 98mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781509826360
• ISBN-10: 150982636X
• Artikelnr.: 45139247

Autorenporträt

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Rezensionen

Fitzgerald's slim tale of the jazz age became the most celebrated and beloved novel in the American canon. It's more than an American classic; it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream Jay McInerney The Observer