Gatsby Al-Azeem Jarir Bookstore

Author's name: F. Scott Fitzgerald Publisher: Jarir Bookstore for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2015 Literary classification: Novel About the book: "The Great Gatsby" is the third work of the American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1925, and critics consider it his greatest novel. Poet T.S. Eliot read it three times and said it was the first step forward that American fiction has taken since Henry James. H.L. Mencken praised the charm and beauty of the writing in "The Great Gatsby" as well as Fitzgerald's keen social awareness. Thomas Wolfe welcomed it as Fitzgerald's greatest work. It is the story of the great wealthy Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan and the lavish parties in Long Island during a time when "gin" was the national drink and sex was the national obsession, as the New York Times pointed out. It is a skillfully crafted novel about America in the 1920s, a story that approaches myth in its power, filled with poetic beauty, harsh realism, magic, romance, and mysticism. "The Great Gatsby" is one of the great classics of 20th-century literature.