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‘The Great Gatsby’ at 100: An All-American Enigma
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel is a slender epic of wealth and society, brilliantly depicting the ambitions and ...
The real ‘Great Gatsby’: Meet the men who likely inspired the infamous novel
In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest had come on who had just published a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
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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 ...
Cheat Sheets for ‘The Great Gatsby’s’ Centennial
Scott Fitzgerald published “The Great Gatsby,” the novel’s influence hasn’t exactly dimmed. From illuminating the Empire ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
But the banners aren't reading the novel carefully enough. For, even as The Great Gatsby tells us the American Dream may be a ...
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The Great Gatsby Musical Transforms West End
A musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' has debuted in London's West End, encapsulating the lavish ...
"The Great Gatsby" turns 100: Initially a sales flop, now regarded as the "great American novel"
When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the ...
'The Great Gatsby' at 100: Long Island's Gold Coast is backdrop for Fitzgerald's classic American novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic has had a lasting cultural impact on Long Island, from its historical inspirations to its ...
Dazzling tragedy of The Great Gatsby still stalks the American imagination
On Friday night the tower lights of the Empire State Building turn green in elegant tribute to The Great Gatsby, the slender ...
Musical 'The Great Gatsby' brings 1920s glamour to London's West End
A musical incarnation of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby" has opened in London's West End, offering audiences the chance to step into Jay Gatsby's world of parties at ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
But the banners aren't reading the novel carefully enough. For, even as The Great Gatsby tells us the American Dream may be a mirage, it does so in some of the most beautiful language anyone has ...