Books by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

The great American classic is now a major motion picture directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously 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.

The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

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.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

A poetic portrait of the Roaring Twenties in New York City brought to dazzling life in this stunning collectors edition of a classic in American literature.

Set in the unique atmosphere of the 1920s Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby explores the lure of decadence, superficiality, and the ever-elusive American Dream through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway and the longings and obsessions of mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby.

Watch the classic come to life in a whole new way with this beautiful Art Deco-style designed edition, complete with true-to-style and -time illustrations, maps, and fold-out pages elaborately designed by artist Robert Nippoldt.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

The classic novel that continues to haunt our understanding of ambition, love, entitlement, and the American Dream—with an exclusive discussion guide and an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris

The basis for the Broadway musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada

#2 on the Modern Library’s List of the 100 Best Novels of the Twentieth Century

Nick Carraway is an aspiring writer; his cousin, Daisy, is married to the fabulously wealthy Tom Buchanan. Their neighbor, Jay Gatsby, throws extravagant and extraordinary parties in the exclusive and hallowed neighborhood of West Egg. The entanglements between these four characters form the backbone of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest work.

When it was first published in 1925, The Great Gatsby was heralded “a mystical, glamorous story of today” (The New York Times). Since then, the story of Jay Gatsby and his love for the treacherous, effervescent Daisy Buchanan has become a staple in high school and college classrooms as well as a beloved favorite of readers everywhere.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann's film. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and 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 and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and 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 and waiting, though no one knows what for. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed, leading to disturbing and tragic consequences. 'Not only a page turner and heartbreaker, it's one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written' Time F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He studied at Princeton University before joining the army in 1917. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic relationship and subsequent breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces. F. Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

The enigmatic Gatsby intrigues the wealthy locals in West Egg, New York. But who is he, and where did he come from? Fitzgerald's most celebrated work, The Great Gatsby is a truly essential novel on the themes of identity, wealth, class and love. Tender is the Night ISBN 9781909399235

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby’s grand effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream. Deeply romantic in its concern with self-making, ideal love, and the power of illusion, it draws on modernist techniques to capture the spirit of the materialistic, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed “the jazz age.” Gatsby’s aspirations remain inseparable from the rhythms and possibilities suggested by modern consumer culture, popular song, the movies; his obstacles inseparable from contemporary American anxieties about social mobility, racial mongrelization, and the fate of Western civilization.

This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material about the consumer culture in which Fitzgerald was immersed; about the spirit of the jazz age; and about racial discourse in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

Beautifully illustrated by Alice Tye, this is a cornerstone of modernist fiction and an incisive critique of wealth, class and the inescapable heartache of lost love.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

Glamour. Opulence. Excess. This is the world Jay Gatsby has created for himself, in hopes that he will one day capture the eye of Daisy Buchanan. But beneath all of this is an emptiness that no amount of money can satiate. And so the ever-elusive American dream he craves continues to shine on, as intangible as the green light that haunts him from the home of his beloved, over the empty waters and across the barren dock.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

A masterpiece of 20th century literature from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the preeminent chronicler of the Jazz Age—a term he coined.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

This classic work encapsulating the decadence and excess of the 1920s “Jazz Age” follows the unassuming Nick Carraway on his search for the American Dream, which leads him to the doorstep of Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic millionaire known for both his lavish parties and his undying love for Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan. With a mixture of envy and dismay, Nick observes Gatsby and his flamboyant life in the Long Island town of West Egg, while Gatsby yearns for Daisy and all that shimmers across the Sound in East Egg. The result is a chronicle of the drama and deceit that swirl around the lives of the wealthy, which cemented Fitzgerals's reputation as the voice of his generation.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald

One of the classics of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby is now available in a definitive, textually accurate edition. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule. Subsequent printings introduced further departures from the author's words. This edition, based on the Cambridge critical text, restores all the language of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Drawing on the manuscript and surviving proof of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and corrections, this is the authorized text - The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it.

Tender is the Night

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. In Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture. Tender Is the Night is also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife's derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver's downward spiral into alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald's own fate. F. Scott Fitzgerald literally put his soul into Tender Is the Night, and the novel's lack of commercial success upon its initial publication in 1934 shattered him. He would die six years later without having published another novel, and without knowing that Tender Is the Night would come to be seen as perhaps its author's most poignant masterpiece. In Mabel Dodge Luhan's words, it raised him to the heights of "a modern Orpheus."