The Great Gatsby
Book Details
| Title: | The Great Gatsby | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1926 | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, historical, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, Guardian's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003), film/TV adaptation | ||||||||||
| Description: | The Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.—Wikipedia. [Suggest a different description.] |
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Author Bio for Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott Key)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (24 September, 1896—21 December, 1940) born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a short story writer and novelist. He is considered one of the pre-eminent authors in the history of American literature due almost entirely to the enormous posthumous success of his third book, The Great Gatsby.
He began his writing career at age 13 when he saw his first piece of writing appear in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper at St. Paul (Minn.) Academy. At Princeton, he firmly dedicated himself to honing his craft as a writer, writing scripts for Princeton’s famous Triangle Club musicals as well as frequent articles for the Princeton Tiger humor magazine and stories for the Nassau Literary Magazine. Fitzgerald’s writing came at the expense of his coursework. He was placed on academic probation, and, in 1917, he dropped out of school to join the Army. The next three years, he worked a few months in advertising and then quit to write full-time in St. Paul. After several rejections and rewrites of his first novel, it was accepted and...
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