In F. Scott Fitzgerald's glittering chronicle of the Jazz Age, narrator Nick Carraway is drawn into the magnetic world of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire whose opulent parties and relentless pursuit of an impossible dream illuminate the dazzling — and decaying — promises of American prosperity. As Carraway observes from the fringes of Long Island's summer society, Fitzgerald spins a razor-sharp meditation on desire, identity, and the corrosive power of illusion, where love and ambition collide against a backdrop of excess and moral ambiguity. Stylish, elegiac, and slyly satirical, it’s a compact novel that lingers long after the last page.