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“Gatsby” is 100 years old, and Fitzgerald’s tale is still America’s story
F. Scott Fitzgerald saw the dire patterns we are living through today. This is why “The Great Gatsby” still matters, writes ...
The Truth About F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Drunken Brawl in Rome
Biographers took an account of a scuffle in “Tender Is the Night” as a record of a real-life event. But uncovered documents ...
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and the American Dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald's life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream - the joys of young love, wealth and success, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure. Named for ...
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Why Gatsby’s ‘Dead Dream’ Still Haunts America 100 Years Later
COMMENTARY: The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a keen appreciation of the human heart’s need for the ...
‘The Great Gatsby’ is a classic. But a century ago, it flopped.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, published 100 years ago this week, was not popular in the author’s lifetime. But it has come to ...
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The Great Gatsby at 100: The Jazz Age novel that helps explain Trump’s America
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great ... whose seemingly breezy approach to life masks a singular obsession: the rekindling of a ...
'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 ...