The Great Gatsby

Published in 1925, this novel is narrated by Nick Carraway, who rents a house on Long Island next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a man who gives vast parties for people he does not know. Nick's cousin Daisy Buchanan lives across the bay with her husband Tom; Gatsby wants Nick to reopen his old love for Daisy, while Tom keeps a mistress in the city, Myrtle Wilson. The action moves among West Egg, East Egg, Manhattan flats, and a valley of ashes under an oculist's sign. Money, rumours of Gatsby's business, and a death on the road bring the summer to a crisis. The book is a novel of the American rich in the Jazz Age.

Gilded top page edge. Bound in blue cloth screen-printed and blocked with a wrap-around colour picture. Pearl gold slipcase printed with a blue pattern on all sides.