The Great American Novel of love & betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited Peoplewere not invited
- they went there' Jay Gatsby's opulent Long Island mansion throngs with the bright young things of the Roaring Twenties But Gatsby himself young handsome & mysteriously rich never appearsto his guests He stands apart from the crowd yearning for something just out of reach
- Daisy Buchanan lost years before to another man One fateful summer when the pair finally reunite their actions set in motion a series of events that will unravel their lives bringing tragedy to all who surround them Widely considered F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Great Gatsby is a tale of excess & obsession & a work of classictwentieth-century American literature

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world & his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd isolated by a secret longing In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host Some say he's a bootlegger Others swear he was a German spy during the war They lean in & whisper he killed a man once' Just where is Gatsby from & what is the obsession that drives him? This edition of The Great Gatsby is the result of a unique collaboration between Tiffany & Co & Vintage Classics It is based on designs in the Tiffany & Co archives from the twenties when F Scott Fitzgerald's talent beauty & notorious lifestyle made him one of best known writers of the Jazz Age ...

Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo Juliet Moulin Rouge!) starring Leonardo Di Caprio & Carey Mulligan The Great Gatsby is F Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess & tragic reality of 1920s America This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Tony Tanner Young handsome & fabulously rich Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion where the party never seems to end he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins & desires Beneath the shimmering surface of his life Gatsby is hiding a secret a silent longing that can never be fulfilled & soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America & the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth & status But he does more than render the essence of a particular time & place for
- in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream
- Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion & reality Like Jay Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history & his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel' In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre dubbed 'the first American Flapper' & their traumatic marriage & Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing As well as many short stories Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise The Great Gatsby The Beautiful & the Damned Tender is the Night & incomplete at the time of his death The Last Tycoon After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact & in the literary sense he created a generation ''A classic perhaps the supreme American novel' John Carey Sunday Times Books of the Century

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These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties Day & night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking dancing & debating his mysterious character For Gatsby
- young handsome fabulously rich
- always seems alone in the crowd watching & waiting though no one knows what for Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach & soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel

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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion Nick Carraway a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage is intrigued by the mysterious host Jay Gatsby a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests & a shadowy past As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge until events spiral into tragedy ...

The Great Gatsby is a dazzling social satire F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece & a milestone in twentieth-century literature now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range' There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights In his blue gardens men & girls came & went like moths among the whisperings & the champagne & the stars' Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg east of New York The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden coolly debating Gatsby's origins & mysterious past None of the frivolous socialites understands him & among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man' A detached onlooker Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates but always seems to be watching & waiting though no one knows what for As the tragic story unfolds Gatsby's destructive dreams & passions are revealed leading to disturbing consequences A brilliant evocation of 1920s high society The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of this glamorous world to display the coldness & cruelty at its heart' Not only a page-turner & a heartbreaker it's one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written' Time' He (F Scott Fitzgerald) was better than he knew for in fact & in the literary sense he invented a generation' New York Times' The most perfectly crafted work of fiction to have come out of America' Professor Tony Tanner' The American masterwork the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers' Washington Post ...

In The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance the carelessness & the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion playing lavish host to hundreds of people & 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 & end in murder This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Great Gatsby features an afterword by David Stuart Davies Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure
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So we beat on boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past' 'F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby was first published on April 10 1925 Set on Long Island's North Shore & in New York City during the summer of 1922 it is the story of an attractive young man hopelessly in love who having worked so hard to improve himself so he can win back the woman he loves finds himself in a world where money has replaced humility & despair has replaced hope For me the novel is a comment on the values & cynicism of east coast America almost a hundred years ago a time when a section of society had suddenly become very wealthy & the American Dream was for most nothing more than the mere pursuit of money' Peter Joucla ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Mia Farrow & Robert Redford star in this romantic drama based on the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald adapted for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola & directed by Jack Clayton Set in the decadent 1920s the story follows Yale graduate & former soldier Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston) as he begins a new life in New York While there he becomes intrigued by the life of his neighbour Jay Gatsby (Redford) a self-made hedonistic millionaire who rekindles his affair with the now unhappily married Daisy (Farrow) Becoming involved in Gatsby&s social circle Nick bears witness to their intense relationship which ultimately results in tragedy Actors Robert Redford Mia Farrow Bruce Dern & Karen Black Director Jack Clayton Certificate 12 years & over Year 1974 Languages English ...

Baz Luhrmann writes directs & produces this adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel starring Leonardo Di Caprio Tobey Maguire & Carey Mulligan Set in the 1920s the story follows aspiring writer Nick Carraway (Maguire) as he moves to New York & becomes intrigued by his neighbour Jay Gatsby (Di Caprio)&s lavish lifestyle & mysterious past As Nick finds himself caught up in the world of the wealthy he witnesses romantic entanglement & betrayal Gatsby&s true nature is slowly exposed & his involvement with old flame Daisy Buchanan (Mulligan) ultimately leads to tragedy The soundtrack was overseen by Jay-Z & features music from amongst others Beyonce Andre 3000 William Lana Del Rey & Florence & the Machine as well as Jay-Z himself ...