The Great Gatsby: Centennial Edition

In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald introduced the world to Jay Gatsby, a man whose relentless pursuit of an ideal would come to symbolize the spirit and excess of the Roaring Twenties. Set in the Jazz Age, the story follows Nick Carraway as he becomes entangled in Gatsby’s mysterious world, where illusion and reality blur. With its exploration of social divides and the elusive nature of the American Dream, the novel remains a defining work of American literature. This Centennial Edition pays tribute to that, celebrating a book that has continued to captivate readers for overa hundred years. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the army. He was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself denied as ‘a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken’. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic marriage and her subsequent breakdowns became the leading influence in his writings.