‘A page-turner and a heartbreaker’ TimeThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby’s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne hisguests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he’s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper ‘he killed a man once’. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?‘One of the greatest works of American literature…a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth’The Times