Cover of The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy 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 Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

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GenreClassic fiction· first published 1925

Vivek’s Notes

Nothing beats the classic's famous cover, with the eyes and the blue, but a graphic novel adaptation in light pastel colours captures the feel and look of the 1920s.

Last line: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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