The Great Gatsby

Published in 1925

Categories: Classics for Adults

A woman's eyes and red lips floating in a dark blue night sky over the bright lights of an amusement park
Cover: Francis Cugat, first edition (1925)

In the summer of 1922 Nick Carraway rents a small house on Long Island, next door to a mansion where a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby throws enormous parties every weekend. Nobody knows where Gatsby's money comes from. Across the bay a green light burns at the end of a dock, where Nick's cousin Daisy lives with her husband. F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the Jazz Age.