In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” first published in 1925, is one of the nation’s greatest novels. Here’s a selection of the Journal’s Masterpiece columns on it and other ...

For my sins, I didn’t know the story of The Great Gatsby until I found myself at the London Coliseum theatre. I knew it was set in the roaring 20s - embodied here through decadent parties and ...

Thanks to its copyright expiring in 2021, two major musical versions of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby have been given the green light. Gatsby: An American Myth, which features music by ...

Fitzgerald lived in a much more modest house just a few miles away when he was writing "The Great Gatsby." The Schietingers, though, believe the author must have visited here. They imagine him ...

If you polled 100 people about who is the awfullest among the awful people in “The Great Gatsby,” I bet 99 of them would answer “that louse Tom Buchanan.” In the new “The Gatsby Gambit ...

The Great Gatsby, as the writer and academic Sarah Churchwell has observed, was a novel about "the American Dream" before it became an established concept. F Scott Fitzgerald perceived the Faustian ...

A star rating of 3 out of 5. F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is a monolith of American literature, and for good reason. With themes of the American Dream, class, decadence, femininity ...

“The Great Gatsby isn’t a great tuner: it’s neither cynical enough to really explore the dark underbelly of the F Scott Fitzgerald story with which it flirts, nor is it distinguished enough to provide ...

Alun Hood, WhatsOnStage: The Great Gatsby isn’t a great tuner: it’s neither cynical enough to really explore the dark underbelly of the F Scott Fitzgerald story with which it flirts ...

Scott Fitzgerald are shown in this courtesy photo. Abigail Cole University of South Carolina Libraries “The Great Gatsby” has been called the Great American Novel. It’s long been a staple of ...