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The Great Gatsby
This is a story about a man who invented himself for a dream—about a party that never truly ended, and a love that never really began. Set in the shimmering summer of 1922, The Great Gatsby follows the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire with a mansion full of strangers and a heart full of one lost name: Daisy. Told by the quietly watchful Nick Carraway, the novel drifts between Long Island’s glittering excess and the quiet ache beneath it. It is a tale of wealth and illusion, of champagne and ash, of hope burning bright at the end of a dock. But more than that, it is about the American dream, and the haunting distance between what we reach for and what we hold. Gatsby believed in the green light, in the beauty of striving. That is what makes him tragic. That is what makes him great.
- Language
- EN
- Genres
- novel
- Published
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