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'The Great Gatsby': Who was he and why does he still matter 100 years later?
But he called it "The Great Gatsby" and we are ... His previous novels, "This Side of Paradise" and "The Beautiful and Damned," helped establish the mythology of a self-mythologizing era.
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The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years
His second book, 1922’s The Beautiful and Damned ... These events provide the loose skeleton of the plot of The Great Gatsby: Poor young James Gatz falls in love with the glamorous socialite ...
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The Great Gatsby at 100
My answer, predictably enough, is that The Great Gatsby is not simply some chore ... Granted, perhaps those in grade school may be a little young to appreciate its linguistic and thematic ...
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The Best Great Gatsby Adaptation, According To Rotten Tomatoes
The debate about what constitutes The Great American Novel is ... tale are retained though, with a young Nick Carraway (Neil ...
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Only The Good Die Young: A Great Gatsby Review
Just a few months shy of its 100th anniversary, “The Great Gatsby” remains firmly in the literary canon ... subdued versions of songs like “Vienna” and “Only the Good Die Young” were used throughout ...
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The Great Gatsby Broadway Reviews
The darker elements of “The Great Gatsby” prove more elusive ... production with ease and style reminiscent of his stunning work on Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. With fierce, high ...
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‘The Great Gatsby’ Is 100, and as Fresh as Ever
A century after “The Great Gatsby” was first published ... online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways. Moral Quandaries: In writing “The Director,” the novelist Daniel Kehlmann ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at 100
Fitzgerald lived in a much more modest house just a few miles away when he was writing "The Great Gatsby ... Paradise" and "The Beautiful and Damned." He believed that "Gatsby" would surpass ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
The novel's main characters are young in a restless ... 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 ...
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100 years later, how Louisville's timeless love affair with 'The Great Gatsby' lives on
Scott Fitzgerald's time in Louisville, Kentucky, particularly his experiences at Camp Taylor, subtly influenced his iconic novel "The Great ... wealth that a young soldier like Gatsby would ...
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'Gatsby' is 100 years old, and Fitzgerald’s tale is still America’s story
A copy of "The Great Gatsby ... What redeemed Gatsby, for me at least, was his “extraordinary gift for hope,” which is the engine of the book. As a young man, Gatsby falls in love with ...