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After 100 years, The Great Gatsby still reminds us of the ability of literature to transform everyday life
With its fantastical, romantic subject matter, luxurious excess and its beloved language – not to mention the nostalgia many ...
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The downfall of King Dollar
A century after its publication, the novel’s glory and brutality persist in the national psyche.
The Great Gatsby at 100: this great American novel is a universal meditation on time and change
The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux ...
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You've missed the point of The Great Gatsby
As F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece turns 100, the novel remains misunderstood - and it's more relevant than ever ...
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The Great Gatsby’s 100th birthday: the Jazz Age novel that helps explain Trump’s America
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100. A century later, it is ...
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Was Gatsby Actually Black? As Novel Turns 100, One East Bay English Class Makes the Case
The discourse over Gatsby’s race has been ongoing for years. Janet Savage, a California writer and attorney, released her ...
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Why Gatsby’s ‘Dead Dream’ Still Haunts America 100 Years Later
COMMENTARY: The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a keen appreciation of the human heart’s need for the ...
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‘It’s opulence personified’: How Jamie Muscato became The Great Gatsby for a musical adaptation 100 years in the making
Master party planner? Tick. Is there anything else Jamie and Jay have in common? Names, for one. ‘My real name is James, but I’ve always been Jamie on stage. He was James Gatz, now he’s Jay Gatsby.’ ...
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The Great Gatsby Turns 100: Why This Novel Stands The Test Of Time
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published on April 10, 1925. As this classic American novel turns 100, we look back at how the narratives of time and change hold true even today. | Books, ...
The Great Gatsby bombed… until a US Army edition made it a hit among GIs
Viewed today as the archetypal ‘Great American Novel', F Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age masterpiece flopped on publication 100 ...
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The new hit musical loved on Broadway that's opening in London's West End next week
The central love story, following Jay Gatsby, who is newly rich ... In the book, Gatsby (a Prohibition bootlegger whose real name is Jimmy Gatz) seeks to recapture a forgotten past – to make ...