An American classic that perfectly captures life in New York during the Jazz Age and Roaring 1920s , The Great Gatsby is a fictional, yet historical first-person narration, by a man named Nick Carraway, a newcomer to Long Island. Nick recounts the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, his long-lost love, as well as his attempt to grasp hold of what he considers the true "American Dream." This illustrated edition of The Great Gatsby pairs Fitzgerald's immortal prose with a carefully curated selection of paintings chosen by the editors of Admont Publishing Co. t o deepen, haunt, and illuminate the novel's world - the gilded parties, the green light, the valley of ashes, the irretrievable past. The Admont Classics imprint was founded on a single conviction: that the greatest works of literature deserve to live alongside the greatest works of art. Rather than commissioning new artwork, we turned to the canon itself. The paintings gathered here were not made for this novel, yet they speak to it with uncanny precision - the way a Leyendecker captures opulence and beauty at its most American yet equally renders subtle, illicit desire as pure, dangerous surface. Each image was selected to serve the reader: to slow them down at the right moment, to make visible what Fitzgerald leaves hovering between the lines. The Great Gatsby is a novel about beautiful things that destroy. It seemed only right that it should be beautiful to hold. The Admont Classics series is published by Admont Publishing Co., an independent literary press.