The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 05

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 09

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 08

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 07

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 06

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 04

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 03

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 02

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 01

Arts

Livres

Fiction

Drame

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's dust jacket art greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated its imagery into the novel.