The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.,,It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so myst….Read More
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