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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Nick Carraway rents a modest house in West Egg and becomes drawn into the orbit of his wealthy neighbour Jay Gatsby, whose extravagant parties conceal a deeply personal hope. Across the bay, Daisy and Tom Buchanan inhabit a world of inherited money, while the road between Long Island and Manhattan brings their separate lives into uneasy contact.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 61 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Characters of The Great Gatsby - Plate 1 of 7
Characters of The Great Gatsby - Plate 2 of 7
Characters of The Great Gatsby - Plate 3 of 7
New York and Long Island
West EggA newly rich peninsula faces the bay and East Egg.
Nick and the East Egg Circle
The Light Across the BayGatsby reaches toward the light at the end of his dock.
A Stranger at the PartyNick discovers that his gracious host is Gatsby himself.
This edition
- Title
- The Great Gatsby
- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First published
- 1925
- Illustrated plates
- 115 original artworks · 61 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 9 · about 48,307 words
- Reading time
- 3 h 13 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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