Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. Painter Francis Cugat's final cover design impressed Fitzgerald who incorporated a visual element from the art into the novel. The final title he desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. After his revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. He submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.Ī youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922 inspired the novel. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Praise for The Great Gatsby: 'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' Sunday Times 'More than an American classic it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream' Guardian 'F.“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan.

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