The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression.The Times
Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true "business": "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty"The Times
It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern lifeDaily Telegraph
The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insightMirror
His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them allLos Angeles Times
His glorious prose captures ephemeral glamour magicallyIndependent
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings
Read it again, foreverBoston Globe
