The Great Gatsby (Summarized Edition)

In The Great Gatsby (Unabridged), F. Scott Fitzgerald filters the rise and unraveling of Jay Gatsby through Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner adrift among East and West Egg's brittle splendors. Set in the summer of 1922, the novel deploys a modernist economy of scene and symbol—the green light, the valley of ashes, the watchful billboard—within lyrical prose that shifts from satire to elegy. Its taut ...