{"product_id":"the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald","title":"The Great Gatsby by F. 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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece - the story of Jay Gatsby's obsessive pursuit of beauty, wealth, and a lost love - remains one of the most precisely written and emotionally resonant works in the English language. This is the edition it deserves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Pauper Press, a family-owned American publisher with a long tradition of producing beautiful books, has brought \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e into its Masterpiece Library series: a line of hardcover classics designed to be read, displayed, and kept for decades. The result is a volume that treats Fitzgerald's prose with the same care he brought to every sentence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe binding and cover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover is embossed with iridescent highlights, and the spine is gold foil-stamped — details that catch the light and hold up to the novel's Jazz Age glamour. The quarter-binding is reinforced cloth in a rich jewel tone, chosen for durability as much as for appearance. This is not a book that will crack or fade after a few readings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe paper and typography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pages are cream-coloured and acid-free, with font, type size, and line spacing chosen to make reading comfortable even under imperfect lighting. Archival-quality paper means the pages won't yellow with age — a meaningful consideration for a novel first published a century ago. A matching satin ribbon bookmark is included, so you never lose your place in a chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe specifications\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe volume measures 16.5cm wide by 23.5cm high and runs to 160 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e is set on Long Island and in New York City during the summer of 1922. Narrated by Nick Carraway - Gatsby's neighbour and Daisy Buchanan's cousin - the novel traces Gatsby's rise from obscurity to extravagant wealth, and the hollowness that wealth cannot fill. Fitzgerald wrote it as a portrait of an era, but its themes - class, illusion, longing, the corrupting pull of aspiration - have never stopped being relevant. Today the novel has sold over 25 million copies worldwide and remains Scribner's most popular title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho this edition is for\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a considered gift for a reader who already owns \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e in a battered paperback and deserves something better. It suits the collector who wants a cohesive home library aesthetic, the student who will return to this book throughout their life, and anyone who believes that a great novel warrants a beautiful object. 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