Fitzgerald`s classic tale of jazz-era New York & the mysterious, party-throwing millionaire Jay Gatsby. It`s 1922 & New York is electric. A hotbed of jazz, glamour & scandal. The playground of the super-rich. & the new home of Nick Carraway, a Mid-Western man chasing his American dream. For eighty dollars a month, Carraway finds himself the unlikely neighbour of his beautiful cousin Daisy Buchannan & a mysterious millionaire
- Jay Gatsby. From the shadow of Gatsby`s mansion, Carraway is drawn into the glittering, captivating world of the wealthy
- their parties, their love affairs, & their lies. & as he watches his new friends, he writes their story. A tale of roaring excess, impossible love & the devastating, tragic consequences.

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** The twentieth-century masterpiece, the authoritative new edition** ` There was music from my neighbour`s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men & girls came & went like moths among the whisperings & the champagne & the stars.` Enigmatic, intriguing & fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer & a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby & Daisy`s affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald`s masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. Praise for The Great Gatsby: `A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel` Sunday Times ` More than an American classic; it`s become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream` Guardian `F. Scott Fitzgerald was better than he knew, for in fact & in the literary sense he invented a generation` New York Times ` An unquiet masterpiece whose mystery never fails to exert its power` Robert Mc Crum, Observer, ` The 100 Best Novels in English` ...

When it came to loving… he knew which Daisy to pick! wild parties, exquisite cocktails, fabulous wealth, raging jealousy & spectacular deaths... Sorry old sport, but Gatsby has a bigger house than you, prettier friends than you & a Rolls Royce to cart them all round in. To a backdrop of popping champagne corks & orchestral jazz, our hero bids to buyout his old adversary, perennial jock, Tom Buchanan & reclaim Daisy, his favourite bit of High Society totty. ...

The Great Gatsby lives in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people, & yet no-one seems ...

Spineless Publishing offers you the unique display for The Great Gatsby on one sheet to hang on the wall. This American classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the darker side of the roaring twenties. It follows the journey of New York arrival Nick as he finds himself drawn into the high-living world of his mysterious neighbour Gatsby, for whom money & friends come as easily as the girls. But all is not as glamorous as it seems & before long things start to come unravelled with tragic consequences. The Great Gatsby is shown here with his beloved Rolls Royce
- at one the great symbol of his good living & the instrument of his downfall. The font, although inevitably small, up close, is perfectly legible. All Spineless Classics are printed on heavyweight paper in sharp, lightfast ink which will not fade. Frame you favourite classic & transform it into a beautiful work of art. Please note the frame is not included.
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Each spread focuses on one destination, & the intricate artwork gives readers a visual flavour of the place, with masses to look at & discover the more you look. There are links from one place to the next
- historical, geographical, natural history or just simple proximity
- for example, there is an ancient Egyptian obelisk in NY`s central park, with two sister obelisks in Paris & London. Find the one in the Central Park using Google[trademark] Earth co-ordinates & it gives you the clue to where you will be going next. The pyramids at the Louvre in Paris will whisk you off to the temples of Ancient Egypt, then find a connection from the Colosseum of Ancient Rome to the hot plains of Tanzania that team with wildlife, from flocks of flamingos to herds of wildebeest to prides of lions. & so on... In each location you have to find a souvenir to take with you. You will also need to solve a puzzle with the help of Google[trademark] Earth to collect co-ordinates for your final secret location
- again on Google[trademark] Earth. For instance, the puzzle tells you to visit the Statue of Liberty on Google[trademark] Earth & to count the number of points on its crown. This number is one of the co-ordinates you need to find your final destination on Google[trademark] Earth at the end of the book.


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Each spread focuses on one destination, & the intricate artwork gives readers a visual flavour of the place, with masses to look at & discover the more you look. There are links from one place to the next
- historical, geographical, natural history or just simple proximity
- for example, there is an ancient Egyptian obelisk in NY`s central park, with two sister obelisks in Paris & London. Find the one in the Central Park using Google [trademark] Earth co-ordinates & it gives you the clue to where you will be going next. The pyramids at the Louvre in Paris will whisk you off to the temples of Ancient Egypt, then find a connection from the Colosseum of Ancient Rome to the hot plains of Tanzania that team with wildlife, from flocks of flamingos to herds of wildebeest to prides of lions. & so on... In each location you have to find a souvenir to take with you. You will also need to solve a puzzle with the help of Google [trademark] Earth to collect co-ordinates for your final secret location
- again on Google [trademark] Earth. For instance, the puzzle tells you to visit the Statue of Liberty on Google [trademark] Earth & to count the number of points on its crown. This number is one of the co-ordinates you need to find your final destination on Google [trademark] Earth at the end of the book.


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A brilliantly interactive book from award-winning illustrator Jennie Maizels that makes learning grammar fun! Turn the wheels, lift the flaps & pull the tabs to learn all about nouns, punctuation & sentences. Play heads bodies & legs to find out about adjectives, look in the mirror to discover what a pronoun is, & take a dog for a walk as he explains prepositions! ...

This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author`s words his `ridiculous obsession`, arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. The hedge was set in place to allow the collection of the Salt Tax by British customs officers, Inspired by the concept of this amazing living barrier, now forgotten, Roy Moxham set off to find out what has happened to it & whether any remnant existed today. His travels in India, & what he found there, form the basis for this illuminating book. Writer Jan Morris comments, ` At first I thought this remarkable book must be a hoax.. . It tells the story of one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria`s India
- a customs barrier 2, 300 miles long, most of it made from hedge. It was patrolled by 12, 000 men & would have stretched from London to Constantinople, yet few historians mention it & most of us have never heard of it. Could anything be more astonishing?`
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Fifty stories of adventure & exploration over more than two hundred years of human history. The Great Horizon features those who set out to conquer new territories & claim world records alongside those who contributed to our understanding of the world all but accidentally. Published in association with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, & with full access to their extensive records, the book

Includes:: unique images & insights from the RSGS archives, along with never-before seen material.

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