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
chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald
recreates the universal conflict between illusion and
reality.
'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel.'
John Carey, Sunday Times, Books of the Century
