The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, "The Great Gatsby" (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry J ... Read full overview
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of "The Great Gatsby, " edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and authorized by the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first edition of "The Great Gatsby" contained many errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule, and subsequent editions introduced further departures from the author's intentions. This critical edition draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and corrections, to restore the text to its original form. It is "The Great Gatsby" as Fitzgerald intended it.