The Great Gatsby

Details

Instance of

literary work

Publication date

10 April 1925

Follows

The Beautiful and Damned

Followed by

Tender Is the Night

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Derivative works

The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Phatsby

Genre

tragedy, Great American Novel

Awards

Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction

characters

Meyer Wolfshiem, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, George B. Wilson

copyright status

public domain, public domain

country of origin

United States

cover art by

Francis Cugat

Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions)

813.52

different from

Gadsby

epigraph

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!'

first line

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

form of creative work

novel

has edition or translation

The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby (Planet eBook edition), The Great Gatsby, Gatsby le Magnifique, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby

language of work or name

English

last line

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

named after

Jay Gatsby

narrative location

New York City

narrator

Nick Carraway

quotation or excerpt

No telephone message arrived, but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o’clock — until long after there was anyone to give it to if it came. I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

set in period

1920

title

The Great Gatsby

topic's main category

Category:The Great Gatsby

working title

Trimalchio in West Egg

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