The Great Gatsby: Alphabetised Centennial Edition : Fitzgerald/McVeigh

Special Commemorative Paperback Edition

(4" x 6" 214pp)

To mark the centenary of The Great Gatsby—and the coinciding 100th birthdays of Concrete Poetry pioneers Eugen Gomringer and Ian Hamilton Finlay—this radical new edition reimagines Fitzgerald’s classic not by rewriting it, but by reordering it.

Every word of The Great Gatsby, alphabetised. A novel dismantled and rebuilt as pure language. Narrative is dissolved. What remains is rhythm, repetition, resonance—a shimmering collage of Fitzgerald’s vocabulary, where themes and motifs rise to the surface through form, not plot.

Inspired by the visual and conceptual experiments of the Concrete Poets, this edition treats language as material. It invites the reader to read slowly, look closely, and see the familiar through a new lens. It is at once a literary artifact, an art book, and an act of homage—to Gatsby, to poetry, and to the strange and beautiful structures that underlie every story.

A century later, Gatsby still dazzles—now, in unexpected order.

You can read the full story and explanation behind this alphabetised edition here...

And if you fancy reading it in the order F. Scott Fitzgerald intended, we made a companion edition that's pretty beautiful too - you can get hold of a copy here...