The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel (Graphic Classics) (Hardcover)
The enduring tale of passion, class struggle, and the American dream is now a colorful graphic novel in an elegant thread-bound format.
In this thread-bound, colorful, graphic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, readers are drawn into a tale rich with the universal themes of passion, class struggle, and the pursuit of the American dream. At the height of the Jazz Age in the 1920s, the young millionaire Jay Gatsby hosts extravagant parties at his Long Island mansion, but his true persona is an enigma to even his next-door neighbor Nick Carraway. Illustrator Pete Katz’s stunning scenes capture all the glamour and heartache of Gatsby’s life in brilliant detail, introducing a new generation of readers to Fitzgerald’s masterpiece.
In this thread-bound, colorful, graphic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, readers are drawn into a tale rich with the universal themes of passion, class struggle, and the pursuit of the American dream. At the height of the Jazz Age in the 1920s, the young millionaire Jay Gatsby hosts extravagant parties at his Long Island mansion, but his true persona is an enigma to even his next-door neighbor Nick Carraway. Illustrator Pete Katz’s stunning scenes capture all the glamour and heartache of Gatsby’s life in brilliant detail, introducing a new generation of readers to Fitzgerald’s masterpiece.
Pete Katz is a half-Irish, half-Greek illustrator and writer, born in the East End of London. He has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years and has worked for clients including Image Comics, Oxfam, Harvey Nichols, Barnes & Noble, Scholastic, Canterbury Classics, and the British Museum. As well as illustrating his graphic novels, he writes and adapts the scripts for most of them and is published worldwide in fifteen languages. Along with working on graphic novels, he also produces portraits, t-shirt graphics, and other commissions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer whose best-known works include This Side of Paradise (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night (1934).
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer whose best-known works include This Side of Paradise (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night (1934).