Literary Fiction

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway rents a house in West Egg, next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, whose extravagant parties mask a desperate longing. Through Nick's eyes, we witness Gatsby's doomed obsession with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, his lost love now married to the brutish Tom. A masterpiece of Jazz Age disillusionment, wealth, and the corruption of the American Dream.

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