The great Gastby

For the centennial of its publication, a new edition of one of the most iconic of American novels, including four of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories about wealth and class from his collection All the Sad Young Men and an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of PachinkoOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA Penguin ClassicYoung, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, where the party seems never to end, he’s often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd. 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 centennial edition includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men—"Winter Dreams," "The Rich Boy," "The Sensible Thing," and "Absolution"—as well as suggestions of a wide variety of multimedia resources for exploring the novel’s themes.