A collectible hardcover edition of one of the great American
novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring an introduction by
Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko
A Penguin Vitae Edition
Young, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have
everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long
Island, where the party seems never to end, he's often alone in the
glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls
around him--that he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the
war, that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into
this decadent orbit, he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of
the enigmatic Gatsby, for whom one thing will always be out of reach:
Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from
Gatsby's just across the bay.
A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar
America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel
whose power remains undiminished after a century. This edition, based on
scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925,
restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he
envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race,
class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream.
Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as Penguin of one's life--is a deluxe
hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse
landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of
classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully
designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and
welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal
inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
