"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--

Returning from the battlefields of World War I, an impoverished young soldier learns the love of his life has married into a wealthy family and moved to Long Island's fabled Gold Coast. Obsessed with rekindling their romance, he reinvents himself as the mysteriously prosperous Jay Gatsby, throws scandalously lavish parties at his glittering mansion, and waits for his chance.

No writer portrayed America's Jazz Age as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories that seem as fresh...

Durante décadas, y acercándose a su centenario, El gran Gatsby ha sido considerada una obra maestra de la literatura y candidata al título de Gran novela americana por su dominio al mostrar la pura identidad americana junto a un estilo distinto y maduro. La historia se desarrolla en la era del jazz americana en Long Island y New York y, con una narrativa que no da respiro al lector, nos presenta la vida de millonarios y socialites de la época,...

The Great Gatsby SparkNotes Literature Guide by F. Scott Fitzgerald Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night...

In this contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, seventeen-year-old Naomi Rye becomes entangled in the drama of a Hamptons social circle and a tragedy that shakes the summer community.

F. Scott Fitzgerald sets The Great Gatsby around WWI; he leaves the reader with a mystery of the true identity and education of his fictional character. This novel, The Great Jay Gatsby supplies the answers and sets the novel in WWII. The reader must decide whether Gatsby lived and when? Meet the Great Gatsby's beautiful wife in the pages of this story. A literary achievement for any writer is to create a fictional character so real that the...

Includes in depth analysis of themes, symbols and techniques in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, as well as useful quotes and ways of reading the novel for developing a band 6 (A range) response. Also includes suggestions on how to use Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese as a related text. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby were written in periods of rapid, social change...

Trivia-on-Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! In F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel, we learn the story of Jay Gatsby through the words of Nick Carraway, who was once his neighbor and friend. Gatsby is a young millionaire and is deeply in love with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, a married woman with whom he starts an affair. Nick describes the frivolous and lavish life...