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.

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 ...

Those themes pervade “The Great Gatsby,” which takes place on Long Island and nearby New York City. Its main character is Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and aloof young man who is among the newly rich, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hyland, 34, is back on the boards for the first time in nearly 20 years in “The Great Gatsby,” stepping into ... Even more so, “it's just a really beautiful, full-circle moment.

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 ...

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 ...