“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” 100th ANNIVERSARY EDITION! WITH ORIGINAL COVER ART! Including a Foreword, commentary on Fitzgerald's life and the "Jazz Age", historical context, and an original map of Gatsby's world. Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate - a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period - which reveals a hero like no other - one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. “There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.” It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan - a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty, to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with the sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. - Original book jacket blurb by Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925 If you've never read The Great Gatsby before - or if you are already a fan of the book - here is your chance to own a unique 100th Anniversary Edition, with the original cover included!