**The twentieth-century masterpiece, the authoritative new edition** `There was music from my neighbour`s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.` Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy`s affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald`s masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. Praise for The Great Gatsby: `A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel` Sunday Times `More than an American classic; it`s become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream` Guardian `F. Scott Fitzgerald was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation` New York Times `An unquiet masterpiece whose mystery never fails to exert its power` Robert McCrum, Observer, `The 100 Best Novels in English`