The Great Gatsby New Edition with Pictures and Stills

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. Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighboring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and 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. In its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel." In 1998, the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second-best English-language novel of the same time period. Cover of the first edition (1925) artist: Francis Cugat. EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As I got older I decided to read again all those classics from the English, French and Spanish literature. Classics from my student days. Books I loved as a teenager growing up in France and books that I am wondering how would I remember them; the plot, the characters, how would I understand them now and how would they affect me now. As I have a background in film, I decided to edit a new version because I wanted to include some stills of the different artistic adaptations that were made through the years to help the reader jump into the author's world. Hope you'll enjoy the ride! A.