The Great Gatsby: the Great Gatsby (English Version)

"THE GREAT GATSBY: The Great Gatsby" was first published in 1925. It is the masterpiece of the famous American novelist F. S. Fitzgerald in the 20th century. It is regarded as a symbol of the "Jazz Age" of American literature. It was selected as one of the 100 best English novels of the 20th century. In the decades after the 1950s, it once became a standard textbook for literature courses in American high schools and universities. Starting from the perspective of the unknown writer Nick, the novel comprehensively displays the life of the upper class society in the United States in the 1920s, the hypocrisy between people, and the destruction of the "American Dream" in fantasy, love and lies. Described as "the great American novel", The Great Gatsby has become a standard text for generations of American students and one of the most beloved books of all time. First published on April 10, 1925, The Great Gatsby is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922. It is a critique of the American Dream. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed having unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Gre