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
“About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land…”
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