pstrongem1 OF THE TOP 10 NOVELS OF ALL TIME - the story that has thrilled millions and millions of readers with colorful tales of fun, madness, love, and murder. Now you, too, can return to experience the famous Prohibition era in the third person.emstrongppstrongememstrongppstrong- 96th Anniversary Edition -strongppbrpp- this is the original version by fitzgerald with the addition of an annotated literary critique at the end to better explain the meaning of this book.emppbrppThe Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald published for the first time in New York on April 10, 1925, and defined by T.S. Eliot as the first step forward made by American fiction since Henry James.ppbrppstrongemBackground of the Book.emstrongppSet in New York and Long Island during the summer of 1922, The Great Gatsby is the most acute portrait of the soul of the Jazz Age, with its contradictions, its victimhood, and its tragedy. The story, which following the technique of Henry Jame