Great Gatsby (Penguin Essentials)

Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'.

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He (F Scott Fitzgerald) was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation"