On January 1st 2021, the text for The Great Gatsby entered the public domain and it has been freely adapted for the first time with this illustrated edition published by Black Dog & Leventhal, an imprint of Hachette
Adam Simpson was commissioned to create eight internal artworks and a series of spots to sit amongst the text as well as the design for the cover and slip case. The text of this illustrated edition is reprinted from the first printing of the first edition of the work, published in 1925
“There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the …the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool….The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of transit, a thin red circle in the water.”
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