The Great Gatsby - Paperback

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

The Great Gatsby – Paperback by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a celebrated American classic set amid the wealth, glamour, and social divisions of the Jazz Age. First published in 1925, the novel explores ambition, romantic obsession, class, identity, and the elusive promise of the American Dream. 

As Nick becomes drawn into the lives of Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom Buchanan, he witnesses the consequences of wealth, dishonesty, longing, and social privilege. Gatsby’s pursuit of an idealized past gradually reveals the distance between personal dreams and reality.

This paperback is the authorized Scribner edition from Fitzgerald’s lifelong publisher. It presents the enduring original text with the author’s revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and an introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. 

Book Highlights

• Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Paperback edition
• Authorized by Fitzgerald’s family
• Published by Fitzgerald’s lifelong publisher, Scribner
• Features the enduring original text with author revisions
• Includes a foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter
• Includes an introduction by Jesmyn Ward
• Narrated by Nick Carraway
• Follows Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan
• Set in 1920s New York and Long Island
• Explores wealth, class, love, illusion, identity, and ambition
• Examines the promise and failure of the American Dream
• Suitable for classrooms, book clubs, and classic-fiction readers
• Number of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 0.6 × 7.9 × 5.2 inches
• Publication date: October 1, 2004
• Interest level: Grades 9–12
• Reading level: 7.3

Author Biography

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's novels include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.