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Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound ...
The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux ...
The book’s lukewarm reception in the local press may not be surprising given its author’s complicated relationship with St.
He killed a man once; he is “second cousin to the devil”. A quarter of “The Great Gatsby” has passed before, at one of his lavish parties, Jay Gatsby bumps into Nick Carraway, the narrator ...
John Keats wrote in his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” that when he encountered George Chapman’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, it filled him with limitless excitement.
With "The Great Gatsby" finally falling under the public ... so when the characters occasionally slip into quotes they sound ...
The themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” — wealth inequality and social aspirations — remain strikingly relevant. This month marks its 100th birthday. A century after ...
The classic as past and prologue. A century ago, on April 10, 1925, The Great Gatsby was published by Scribner. One month later, Carl Van Vechten, a novelist, photographer, and Zelig-like ...