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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound ...
"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 ...
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'The Great Gatsby': The Great American Novel turns 100. Why it is still great
Each year, 100 years after its publication this month in April 1925, “The Great Gatsby” sells around half a million copies, but at the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, it had sold fewer than 25,000 ...
‘The Great Gatsby’ themes of wealth, insecurity and the American Dream endure
As we navigate our own Gilded Age of tech billionaires and growing inequality, Fitzgerald’s masterpiece reminds us that ...
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Why Gatsby’s ‘Dead Dream’ Still Haunts America 100 Years Later
2025 Perhaps no novel has captured the notion of the “American Dream” so powerfully as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated novel The Great Gatsby, which was published a century ago on April 10 ...
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"The Great Gatsby" turns 100: Initially a sales flop, now regarded as the "great American novel"
Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring ... And its clear-eyed assessment of the attainability of the American dream remains incisive with each passing decade.
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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 ...