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Will There Ever Be Another “Great Gatsby”?
A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America.
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound ...
‘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 embody American aspiration.
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Back then, unsold copies of the first edition of Gatsby were still gathering dust in Scribner's warehouse. Fitzgerald would also be stunned to know that The Great Gatsby has been one of the most ...