The Great Gatsby Paperback

Nick Carraway rents a small house beside a mansion where the parties run all summer, and the man throwing them turns out to be waiting for someone. Fitzgerald's novel of Long Island in the 1920s works entirely through Nick's narration, which keeps Jay Gatsby at a distance almost to the end. Wealth, class and self-invention drive the story, and its brevity is part of the reputation: at 140 pages in this Amazing Reads paperback, very little in it is spare. Reading notes: • A narrator positioned just outside the story he tells • Jazz Age Long Island as both setting and subject • Themes of wealth, class and reinvention • A tightly written 140-page paperback edition Standard reading for literature students, classics collectors and newcomers to American fiction, published by Amazing Reads and available at Boipoka.