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First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby still sells half a million copies a year. Both a brilliant evocation of the Jazz Age in all its exhausting glory and a satire of a country obsessed with money and power, F Scott Fitzgerald's novel is lauded as one of the greatest ever written in English. His editor Max Perkins described it as "a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism".