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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 ...
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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 at 100
The Great Gatsby is possibly the greatest American novel. However, it carries the usual imprimatur of classic literature ...
Literary picks for week of April 6: ‘Great Gatsby’ readings
Thursday is unofficially “The Great Gatsby” day in the Twin Cities, when the iconic novel by St. Paul native son F. Scott ...
WT’s Great Books series honoring The Great Gatsby
WT’s Great Books Series will spotlight The Great Gatsby in April as the novel celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2025.The ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Live reading of ‘Great Gatsby’ kicks off events marking 100th anniversary
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of “The Great Gatsby” on Thursday, a handful of F. Scott Fitzgerald enthusiasts will read the entire novel aloud at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.