Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the 'roaring twenties' and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore of the American seaboard in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, Jay Gatsby and the dark mystery which surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.

1929年，新婚夫妇乔治·潘伯顿和萨琳娜·潘伯顿从波士顿前往北卡罗莱纳的崇山峻岭中，准备在那里建立一个木材帝国。虽然乔冶已经在木材营里住了段时间，还致使自己的女仆非婚怀孕，而萨琳娜却是初来乍到。但她却马上显示出了不输男儿的活力：监工、驯鹰捕蛇、打猎，甚至在灰熊的魔爪之下拯救了丈夫的性命。
在萨琳娜的辅助下，潘伯顿逐一征服对手，他伐木、财阀采矿，表面上各取所需，但最后他才是赢家通吃。谁敢与他作对，必以横死收场。
当萨琳娜得知自己不会再有孩子的时候，她计划谋杀丈夫婚前与其他女人养育的那个孩子。那对母子开始为生存而东躲西藏。没过多久，萨琳娜得知自己的丈夫为保护那对母子偷偷帮了忙，这段情投意合的婚姻开始有了裂缝，故事将走向一个令人震惊的结局。