Great Gatsby: 100th Anniversary Edition

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – 100 Celebrating and Counting of the Great American Novel
Featuring the Original 1926 Classic Cover Art

Hailed as the Great American Novel, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless masterpiece of love, ambition, and the American Dream. First published in 1925 and set during the Roaring Twenties, this enduring classic captures the glamour and moral decay of Jazz Age America with unmatched elegance and precision.

Told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner who relocates to Long Island after World War I, the novel follows Nick as he enters the world of New York’s wealthy elite while learning the bond business in Manhattan. He becomes entangled with his cousin Daisy Buchanan, her domineering husband Tom Buchanan, and the coolly independent Jordan Baker.

Living next door to a lavish mansion across the bay, Nick hears whispers of the enigmatic Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire known for his extravagant parties. When Gatsby learns of Nick’s connection to Daisy, he draws Nick into a carefully constructed plan to rekindle a lost love. What follows is a haunting exploration of obsession, illusion, class, and the dangers of trying to relive the past—culminating in tragedy.

Renowned for its exquisitely crafted prose, rich symbolism, and unforgettable characters, The Great Gatsby remains a cornerstone of American literature, widely studied in classrooms and cherished by readers worldwide.

This edition is beautifully presented as part of the Clydesdale Classics series and features the original 1926 cover artwork, making it an ideal choice for collectors, students, and first-time readers alike.

About the Clydesdale Classics Series
Clydesdale Classics offers handsome, affordable trade editions of essential literary works that define our cultural heritage. From Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this curated series preserves the voices of history’s most influential writers in accessible, reader-friendly formats.

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Fans of classic and American literatureStudents and educatorsBook collectors and gift-giversReaders interested in the Jazz Age, the American Dream, and timeless literary fiction

144 pages, Paperback

Published April 8, 2025

About the author

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.