\"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars\" The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby\"s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he\"s a bootlegger....

\"We can\"t behave like people in novels, though, can we?\" Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl....

\"The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames\" In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman\"s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life....

\"We couldn\"t go on indefinitely being swept off our feet\" One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald....

\"She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference\" Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend....

\"Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy\" Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday....

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change....