The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

One of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the definitive novel on the idle rich of the 1920s Jazz Age: The Great Gatsby, first published by Penguin in 1950. Here, his preoccupation with moneyed society takes on a fantastical form, in a playful yet sinister fairy-tale about a family so wealthy they are entirely above the law.