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The real ‘Great Gatsby’: Meet the men who likely inspired the infamous novel
In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest had come on who had just published a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
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The downfall of King Dollar
A century after its publication, the novel’s glory and brutality persist in the national psyche.
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Peaky Blinders and The Great Gatsby: What Tommy Shelby and Jay Gatsby share beneath the suits and smoke
Peaky Blinders' Tommy Shelby and The Great Gatsby's Jay Gatsby are two men from completely different worlds. They are also ...
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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 ...
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'The Great Gatsby' turns 100. What's it like teaching it today?
Then comes the car crash. And then Jay Gatsby is shot ... Goldman's been teaching The Great Gatsby for about two decades. And ...
How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the ...
The Great Gatsby At 100: This Great American Novel Is A Universal Meditation On Time And Change
One hundred years after its publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel, The Great Gatsby – the story of nouveau riche Jay ...