New e-book: The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The work was published in 1925 — at the height of the “Roaring Twenties,” an era that writer F. Scott Fitzgerald called the “Jazz Age.” In those years, champagne flowed freely in New York, parties never seemed to end, and dancing, cinema, and a carefree lifestyle became symbols of that brief period that followed the World War I and preceded the stock market crash of 1929.

If you strip The Great Gatsby of its scenes of parties, luxury, and the развлечения of Long Island’s newly rich, what is it really about? About love and idealism, about youth and the pursuit of material wealth — a path from which the famous “American Dream” would later emerge.