The Great Gatsby: Francis Fitzgerald

With a new foreword by Jesmyn Ward, author of the Women`s Prize-shortlisted Sing, Unburied, Sing

`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.`

Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy`s affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald`s masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century.