The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)

AUTHOR :   F. Scott Fitzgerald

Penguin Modern Classics

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status.  But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicaling Gatsby’s tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.