Great Gatsby * - Couverture souple

A rich man with a mysterious past hosts Long Island's most extravagant parties, while he desperately seeks his long lost love. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is both a pitiless and moving exposure of "the American Dream". This reader uses the expansive reading approach, where the text becomes a springboard to improve language skills and to explore historical background, cultural connections and other topics suggested by the text. As well as the story, this reader contains : accessible adaptation in American English ; wide range of activities practicing the four skills ; FCE-style activities and Trinity-style activities (Grade 7) ; dossiers : The "Roaring Twenties" and American Literature in the 1920s ; exit test and key at blackcat-cideb.com.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.