Few novels have achieved the same level of fame asThe Great Gatsby.
It depicts a disembodied flapper’s face hovering over a nighttime cityscape.
What isThe Great Gatsby?
Digitally restored image of the first edition cover for The Great Gatsby, 1925.
Cover illustration by Francis Cugat.
Published by Charles Scribners Sons.
Digitally restored image of the first edition cover for “The Great Gatsby,” 1925. Cover illustration by Francis Cugat. Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Scott Fitzgerald(18961940).
They are paralleled in the life of Jay Gatsby.
Who Made the Cover forThe Great Gatsby?
Left: Publicity photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1921 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)Right: Photograph of American socialite and heiress Ginevra King, 1918 (Photo: Arnold Genthe viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Photograph of Francis Cugat, the artist behind the 1925 cover of The Great Gatsby, 1918.
These preliminary drawings feature a disembodied face of a flapper suspended over a New York cityscape.
In fact, it has remained one of the most famous covers in literature.
Photograph of Francis Cugat, the artist behind the 1925 cover of “The Great Gatsby,” 1918. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Original painting by Francis Cugat for the first edition of “The Great Gatsby,” 1925 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
First edition dust jacket of “The Great Gatsby,” 1925 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
