The Great Gatsby

Resumen del libro

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age.

The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman he has waited for all his life. Little does he know that his infatuation will lead to tragedy and end in murder.

Biografía del autor

Junto con su esposa Zelda, heredera de una rica familia americana, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) fue durante algunos años el centro de una brillante vida social e intelectual en los míticos escenarios dorados de los años veinte: París, Nueva York y Hollywood. Además de "El gran Gatsby", es el autor de "A este lado del paraíso" y "Hermosos y malditos", publicadas también en Alianza Editorial, "Suave es la noche" y "El último magnate".