Even if you have read it before, this is a book that is worth re-reading.
So, before you watch the movie, come to our stores and get a copy of The Great Gatsby. Luhrmann's film will be a visual spectacle with its intense colour palette, stunning set and costume design and hip soundtrack, but only the novel in its original form - with its nuanced tension and dreamy, lyrical prose - can deliver the tragic blow that has made it such a well-loved classic. The Great Gatsby has been a fixture on essential reading lists for decades, and now, it will attract more attention with this month’s opening of the much anticipated film adaptation by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.
Regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, captures the spirit of the decadent, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed the Jazz Age. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and it tells of Jay Gatsby's parties at his Long Island mansion ─ extravagant and lavish affairs which have become legendary for their opulence. The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher… The party has begun. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot.
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