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- Reading Challenge Pick
Romance
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
Literary Fiction
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Editor's Pick
A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
- Audience
- Adult
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- Classic
- Jazz Age
- Short
About the book
Fitzgerald's short novel of Long Island wealth, longing and self-invention is barely two hundred pages and contains most of what American fiction has argued about since.
Why we recommend it
If you only have one weekend, spend it here. The prose earns every bit of its reputation.
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