The Great Gatsby

<p><I>The Great Gatsby</I> (1925) is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published at the height of Fitzgerald's career as a leading writer of American fiction <I>The Great Gatsby</I> was reviewed poorly by contemporary critics but has since been recognized as a groundbreaking work for its vision of American decadence and decay. Adapted into several influential films and adored by generations of readers and writers <I>The Great Gatsby</I> is not only Fitzgerald's crowning achievement but one of the finest novels ever written. Nick Carraway is a young veteran and Yale graduate who moves to New York in search of work. He rents a bungalow on Long Island next door to the extravagant mansion of Jay Gatsby a magnanimous millionaire with a mysterious past. There he reconnects with his distant cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan a flagrant philanderer who brings Nick to the city in order to spend time with Myrtle his impoverished mistress. Soon he receives an invitation to a party at the Gatsby mansion where he gets terribly drunk and meets his neighbor who swears they served together in the Great War. As time goes by the two begin a tenuous friendship bolstered by stories of the war and a mutual fondness for alcohol. When Nick discovers that Gatsby and Daisy have a complicated history with one another he starts to question not only the nature of his neighbor's kindness but his own desire to make it big in New York. <I>The Great Gatsby</I> is a tragic tale of ambition and romance set in the Roaring Twenties a decade born from war and lost to economic disaster..<p>Since our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. <p>With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p>