THE GREAT GATSBY (PENGUIN ESSENTIALS)

Not only a page-turner and a heartbreaker, it's one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written (Time )

The American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers (Washington Post )

The most perfectly crafted work of fiction to have come out of America (Professor Tony Tanner )

He (F Scott Fitzgerald) was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation" (New York Times )