The Great Gatsby is a classic American romantic tragedy written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The action unfolds in the luxurious New York of the 1920s, where the main character, a young poor man named Jay Gatsby, tries to rekindle his old love with a girl named Daisy Buchanan. Depicting the glamorous lives of the hapless rich and revealing the dark side of the American dream, Fitzgerald created a powerful work that remains relevant and fascinating to this day. In the novel, you will find love, poverty, wealth, betrayal, secrets and persecutions, truth and lies - all these are shades of the palette of sensations that make up The Great Gatsby.