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Edgar Allen Penguin

New York
New York is on of THE most
popular book settings.Goodreads
alone has a list of 92. The subject
matter ranges from murder to saga
and the authors who write about
New York are likewise varied.
Edgar Allen Penguin hopes you
enjoy his trip to the Big Apple as
explores the books that have
helped make the city even more
famous.

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced
his decision to write "something new-something extraordinary and beautiful
and simple and intricately patterned."
That extraordinary, beautiful,
intricately patterned, and above all,
simple novel became The Great
Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest
work and certainly the book for which
he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz
Age in all of its decadence and excess,
Gatsby captured the spirit of the
author's generation and earned itself a
permanent place in American
mythology. Self-made, self-invented
millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some
of Fitzgerald's--and his country's-most abiding obsessions: money,
ambition, greed, and the promise of
new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in
the green light, the orgiastic future
that year by year recedes before us. It
eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch
out our arms farther.... And one fine
morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and
eventual fall from grace becomes a
kind of cautionary tale about the
American Dream.