F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Amory Blaine, handsome, vain and clever, passes through prep school, Princeton, the Great War and three love affairs, looking for something to believe in — Fitzgerald's first novel and the portrait of a new generation.”

“Anthony Patch, heir to a reforming millionaire's fortune, and the dazzling Gloria Gilbert marry in New York before the First World War, and spend the next eight years waiting for the money — drinking, quarrelling and fading, as their youth runs out faster than their inheritance arrives.”

“In the summer of 1922 Nick Carraway rents a cottage on Long Island next to the mansion of the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who throws enormous parties for strangers and stares every night at a green light across the bay — the light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock.”