The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896–1940
The book, and the century it came out of.
A young man rents a house on Long Island next door to a millionaire who throws parties for strangers and waits, every night, for one particular guest. Fitzgerald wrote the definitive American novel about money and longing in under fifty thousand words, and made his narrator complicit enough to be worth arguing with. Its reputation is deserved, which is rarer than it sounds. Illustrated with 58 full-page plates — paintings by Ault, Dickinson and Stella among them.
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!”
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, complete and unabridged. Spelling and punctuation follow present-day American usage; the sentences, the paragraphs and the voice are the author’s, word for word.
It was written in another era and may carry attitudes a reader today will find dated. They are kept for the sake of the work and do not reflect the views of this house.
- Series
- Literary Classics
- Format
- Ebook
- Extent
- about 144 pages
- Reading time
- about 3 hours
- Illustrations
- Full-page plates, credited
- Text
- Complete, unabridged
- Language
- en
- This edition
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9785501212855
58 paintings are bound into this edition
Six of them are shown here, taken from the volume itself. Each is reproduced full page and named with its painter and year.
Long Island, 1925
Prohibition had been in force for five years and had made bootlegging one of the fastest ways to get rich in America; the stock market was climbing towards 1929. Fitzgerald was writing about new money in a country that had suddenly produced an enormous amount of it, and about how thoroughly old money declined to be impressed.
The book sold poorly. He died in 1940 believing himself forgotten, and the novel became what it is now largely because it was printed by the hundred thousand and given to American servicemen during the Second World War.
This book in culture: 5 versions
Most people meet a book like this one on a screen first. Here is what was made of it — and none of these is the book.
The whole afterlife of The Great Gatsby — screen, stage and beyond →
- 1926 The Great Gatsby Herbert Brenon
- 1949 The Great Gatsby Elliott Nugent
- 1975 The Great Gatsby Jack Clayton
- 2000 The Great Gatsby Robert Markowitz TV film
- 2013 The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann
A page from this edition
Not a mock-up: this page is taken from the finished volume. The ornament above the chapter belongs to its shelf and to no other, the opening letter is set as a drop capital, and the plate below carries the name of the painter and the year.
Both photographed from the finished volume.
The Great Gatsby, first published 1925, issued in this edition by Aeneas Press in 2026 on the Literary Classics shelf. Newly set, with the ornament of its series above each chapter and a drop capital on the opening page. Illustrated with full-page plates, each named with its painter.
Published as an ebook and not issued in print by this house; it carries one ISBN, 9785501212855, and is supplied worldwide. This edition — its setting, its ornament, its cover art, and the selection and attribution of its plates — © 2026 Aeneas Press.
Questions readers ask
- Is this the whole of The Great Gatsby?
- Yes — complete and unabridged. Nothing is cut, condensed or paraphrased. This is the book, not a summary of it.
- What exactly did you change?
- The spelling and the punctuation follow present-day American usage. F. Scott Fitzgerald's sentences are untouched — same words, same order, same rhythm.
- Are the pictures really in the book?
- Yes. The edition carries full-page plates bound into the text, each one named with its painter and the year it was made. Six of them are shown on this page.
- How long is it?
- About 144 pages, which is roughly about 3 hours of reading.
- What do I actually get?
- An illustrated ebook with its own ISBN, sold worldwide. One file, yours to keep, readable on any device.
