The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Author	F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover artist	Francis Cugat
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Published	April 10, 1925 (Charles Scribner's Sons)
Media type	Print (hardcover & paperback)
Preceded by	The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
Followed by	Tender Is the Night (1934)

The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first sold in 1925. The novel takes place in New York City and Long Island in New York.^[1]

The Great Gatsby is one of the most popular books in the United States. The book was number two on the Modern Library Association's list of "100 Best Novels of the 20th Century."^[2] Time Magazine put the book in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.^[3] A 1989 study found that 54% of the high schools that were surveyed taught The Great Gatsby in their English classes.^[4]

The story is told by Nick Carraway, a man who moves to Long Island, New York, from the Midwest. Nick is not rich, but he lives in a rich area that has two towns called East Egg and West Egg. The "old rich" live in East Egg while the "new rich" live in West Egg. Nick lives in a small house in West Egg. Nick's next-door neighbor is Jay Gatsby. Jay is in love with Nick's cousin Daisy. However, Daisy is married to a man named Tom. The novel is about Jay and his hope that he can steal Daisy from Tom.

1. ↑ "The Great Gatsby I Summary, Context, Reception, & Analysis | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
2. ↑ "100 Best Novels « Modern Library". www.modernlibrary.com. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
3. ↑ Lacayo, Richard (January 6, 2010). "All-TIME 100 Novels". Time – via entertainment.time.com.
4. ↑ "The 43 Books Most Frequently Tau". Archived from the original on April 13, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2009.