![]() Carraway spends time catching up with his distant cousin Daisy and her industry-baron husband Tom before being invited to one of Gatsbyâs wildly lavish weekend parties. He rents a shabby apartment in Long Island next door to a sumptuous mansion: the home of the mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby. Nick Carraway is a young Midwestern man freshly arrived in New York to make his fortune. Long taught as required reading in American schools, critics have consistently held it up alongside Moby Dick, Huck Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird as perhaps the quintessential Great American Novel. The Great Gatsby is a novel that needs no introduction for a certain generation of American readers.  46 in the Le Mondeâs 100 Books of the Century Part of the Encyclopædia Britannicaâs Great Books of the Western World ![]()  51 in the Guardianâs Best 100 Novels in English (2015)  2 in the Modern Libraryâs 100 Best Novels Standard EbooksĤ9,752 words (3 hours 1 minute) with a reading ease of 73.07 (fairly easy) Scott Fitzgerald - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]()
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