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The characters' self-indulgence and mutual destruction anticipated the tragic lives of Scott and his flapper wife, Zelda. The Fitzgeralds regarded the world as a stage and their lives as performances, and their glamorous doings became as well-known as any of Scott's books. In an eerie foreshadowing of the real-life couple's rapid descent into ruin, this lyric, compulsively readable narrative examines the perishable nature of dreams in the face of realitya theme scrutinized with profound effect in the book's esteemed successor, The Great Gatsby.
"This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1922 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. A new Note has been specially prepared for this edition."