F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby

BOKEN "THE GREAT Gatsby" är en klassisk roman skriven av F. Scott Fitzgerald och anses vara författarens mästerverk. Handlingen kretsar kring den unga Nick Carraway, som blir inbjuden till en extravagant fest i en pampig herrgård på Long Island. Där möter han den gåtfulle värdet Jay Gatsby, en självsäker och reserverad man med oklara affärsintressen och en dunkel bakgrund. Trots sina olikheter utvecklar de två en oväntad vänskap, och genom berättelsen avslöjas Gatsbys omöjliga kärlek till en gift kvinna, vilket leder till en tragedi. Romanen ger en levande skildring av överflöd och dekadens under "Jazzåldern", samtidigt som den fungerar som en tidlös varnande kritik av den amerikanska drömmen. Med sitt fokus på teman som kärlek, vänskap, och samhällsklasser, har "The Great Gatsby" cementerat sin plats som en av de största amerikanska litterära verk någonsin.

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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past.

As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.

Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the "Jazz Age", as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.

The Great Gatsby is the defining literary work of the 'Jazz Age', the decadent 1920s, and perhaps the ultimate novel about the American Dream. In spite of countless adaptions into movies and plays, it is through F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterful prose that the story of the unscrupulous and extravagant Jay Gatsby - as told by the honest Nick Carraway - continues to live on as a great American classic.F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. It seems fitting that he coined the term Jazz Age. His marriage to Zelda Montgomery is legendary, and so are the couple's acquaintances with cultural figures like Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, as well as their lifestyle in 1920s Paris. As Fitzgerald was a master of the short story genre, it is only logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].