The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby"One of the most important works in American literature and, to many, the great American novel." Time. "I want to write something new," F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor, Maxwell Perkins, "something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." A century later, Fitzgerald's little book of big ideas retains its freshness and excitement. The quintessential portrait of Jazz Age America, it reflects the era's postwar exuberance as

The Charcoal-Burner

pawn structure

an Apache basket

utility theory

along with 38 full color illustrations made specially for the Gates edition

with contributions from more than 60 artists

" — Judith Simmer-Brown

Although it was originally designed for use in U

victorian interiors

And the author's pictures get better and better as the story progresses

books on millineries

John Muir (1838–1914) ranks among America's most important and influential environmentalists and nature writers