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 ...

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 Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece & one of the greatest novels of American literature The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses & decadence of the Jazz Age as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream ...

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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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 ...

The Great American Novel of love & betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction Fitzgerald's glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance energy & decadence of an era After the war the mysterious Jay Gatsby a self-made millionaire pursues wealth riches & the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination He buys a mansion across from her house & throws lavish parties to try & entice her When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan tragic events are set in motion Told through the eyes of his detached & omnipresent neighbour & friend Nick Carraway Fitzgerald's succinct & powerful prose hints at the destruction & tragedy that awaits ...

Set in the post-Great War Long Island New York world of the rich The narrator Nick Carraway sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby's romantic dream which founders on the reality of corruption the insulated selfishness of Tom & Daisy & the cutting edge of violence ...

Generally considered to be F Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the roaring twenties & a devastating expose of the Jazz Age Through the narration of Nick Carraway the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan Jay Gatsby & the mystery that surrounds him ...