The Great Gatsby

In the summer of 1922, mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his Long Island mansion — all to win back the woman he lost five years ago.

Narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner drawn into Gatsby’s orbit, the novel peels back the glittering surface of the Jazz Age to reveal a world of carelessness, betrayal, and moral emptiness. Gatsby’s single-minded devotion to Daisy Buchanan — and his belief that wealth can erase the past — sets in motion a chain of events that ends in tragedy on the shores of Long Island Sound.

Though it received modest sales and mixed reviews upon publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby was rediscovered during World War II and has since become one of the most celebrated novels in American literature, a defining portrait of ambition, illusion, and the elusive promise at the heart of the American Dream.