Today's classic feature is The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
From Goodreads:
In 1922, Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology.
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach...Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
Read The Great Gatsby online at the Public Book Shelf.
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Was The Great Gatsby required reading in your high school? Did you like it? Have you read anything else by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Did you know he wrote the short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Did you see the movie with Brad Pitt?
