The Great Gatsby at 100
John Keats wrote in his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” that when he encountered George Chapman’s translation of ...
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The Great Gatsby at 100
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great ... s 2013 movie adaptation of the book briefly made it fashionable again to a younger, hipper audience — the combination of Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby ...
Daywatch: A path to resentencing for more than 1,200 inmates in Illinois
More than 20 years into his incarceration, criminal justice reform advocates say Carter is among roughly 1,200 people in prison in Illinois who, under legislation being considered in Springfield, ...
The Best Books to Read This April
This month, pile your nightstand with buzzy literary fiction, a memoir by Melinda French Gates, a posthumous release by Joan ...
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The 50 best gifts for your girlfriend that will earn her stamp of approval
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Spring Breakers Are Skipping The Beach For This Massive, Treasure-Filled Antique Store In California
Forget sandy toes and sunburns – the savviest spring breakers in California are trading beach towels for treasure hunts at the Pasadena Antique Mall, where the only waves you’ll catch are waves of ...
Chicago’s connection to ‘The Great Gatsby’ as Fitzgerald’s novel turns 100
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romance with a North Shore debutante provided fodder for “The Great Gatsby,” which this year turned 100 ...
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The Great Gatsby at 100
My answer, predictably enough, is that The Great Gatsby is not simply some chore to be endured at a formative point in education, but one of those rare books that can be appreciated, even loved ...
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‘The Great Gatsby’ at 100: An All-American Enigma
“The Great Gatsby,” published 100 years ago this month, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most perfectly realized work of art. It reveals a new and confident mastery of his material, a fascinating if ...
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Photos Photos: Go Inside Rehearsals for London's The Great Gatsby, Starring Corbin Bleu, Jamie Muscato, Frances Mayli McCann
As previously reported, the cast will be led by Jamie Muscato as Jay Gatsby and Frances Mayli McCann as Daisy Buchanan, the ...
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How The Great Gatsby foreshadowed the super-rich’s transition from faceless forces to social media icons with space rockets
She was tapping into a century-old cultural touchstone: the allure of wealth and excess embodied in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. One hundred years after its publication, Gatsby remains ...