This edition is a faithful re-typesetting of the 1925 text, checked against the original edition, with updates and corrections based on Fitzgerald's own handwritten notes from the Princeton archives. An Afterword on critical reception contains a selection of 1925 reviews, including a mixed review written by H. L. Mencken in The Chicago Daily Tribune.Unlike bargain-priced print-on-demand copies, this volume is attractively formatted with clear, readable text and standard margins. As in the 1925 original, the text of this edition runs to 200 pages. Cheap versions which compress the text to 120 pages or less are cramped and hard to read.Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby received largely positive reviews, but sales disappointed in comparison to F.

Scott Fitzgerald's first two novels. By the time of Fitzgerald's death in 1940, the book was out of print. Today the novel is not merely the most popular of Fitzgerald's writings but frequently acclaimed as the great American novel.Narrator Nick Carraway moves to New York City to make his fortune in the bond market and is drawn into the extravagant parties of his Long Island neighbor, the mysterious, rich, lovelorn Jay Gatsby. The novel captures the dazzling Jazz Age, but it is more than a period piece. At its center is the very American question of self-invention.