The Great Gatsby

The Great GatsbyDescription By F. Scott Fitzgerald Hardcover A Penguin Vitae Edition Young, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party seems never to end, he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls around himthat he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the war, that he even killed a man. As writer

From that point forward

by Damien Finlayson

finally accepting the repeated challenges to his stance of nonalignment

became a sort of cant-so much so that their actual content was forgotten

When World War I broke out

One of these

It also follows his life in the years after Arabia

because his life seemed to show that the virtues of the common man continued to be a vital part of American society

many European

some of whom fueled the injustice while others fought against it: from the sphinxlike Woodrow Wilson

by Charles J

as personally revealing as it is compulsively readable