Literary Masterpieces, Vol. 1: The Great Gatsby

What we have here is a novel dissected to the nth degree. The Great Gatsby, first published by Scribners in 1925, has come to be regarded as a stereotyped mirror of the USA in the 1920s, and although it has its readers and admirers worldwide, it is still more highly valued in the USA than in other countries.

In this book, the first in a series of literary masterpieces from the Gale Group, Roger Lathbury of the George Mason University has really taken Scott Fitzgerald’s novel apart. It is difficult to imagine a more detailed examination of any literary...