With a a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book this beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum. Featuring an exclusive foreword by Stephanie Wood an Exhibition Project Curator in the Fashion Textiles and Furniture Department at the V&A.Young handsome and fabulously rich Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age but beneath the sparkling surface of his life Gatsby is hiding a secret a silent longing that can never be fulfilledF. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the fashionable society of the Jazz age and the disillusionment of post-war America. About the Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul Minnesota and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novelThis Side of Paradise published in 1920 was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed withThe Beautiful and the Damned in 1922The Great Gatsby in 1925 andTender is the Night in 1934. He was working onThe Last Tycoon (1941) when he died in Hollywood in 1940. With a a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book, this beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum. Featuring an exclusive foreword by Stephanie Wood, an Exhibition Project Curator in the Fashion, Textiles and Furniture Department at the V&A. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but beneath the sparkling surface ... See more
With a a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book this beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum. Featuring an exclusive foreword by Stephanie Wood an Exhibition Project Curator in the Fashion Textiles and Furniture Department at the V&A.Young handsome and fabulously rich Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age but beneath the sparkling surface of his life Gatsby is hiding a secret a silent longing that can never be fulfilledF. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the fashionable society of the Jazz age and the disillusionment of post-war America. About the Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul Minnesota and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novelThis Side of Paradise published in 1920 was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed withThe Beautiful and the Damned in 1922The Great Gatsby in 1925 andTender is the Night in 1934. He was working onThe Last Tycoon (1941) when he died in Hollywood in 1940. With a a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book, this beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum. Featuring an exclusive foreword by Stephanie Wood, an Exhibition Project Curator in the Fashion, Textiles and Furniture Department at the V&A. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but beneath the sparkling surface of his life, Gatsby is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the fashionable society of the Jazz age and the disillusionment of post-war America.
