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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
[2] [3] She attained fame in the United States following her 1923 victory in the U.S. Women's Amateur. [4] On August 25, 1924, she became the first golfer and first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine. [1] [5] [6] She also was the literary model for the character of Jordan Baker in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby ...
His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel".
Jay Gatsby (originally named James Gatz) is the titular fictional character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is an enigmatic nouveau riche millionaire who lives in a luxurious mansion on Long Island where he often hosts extravagant parties and who allegedly gained his fortune by illicit bootlegging during prohibition in the United States. [5]
Few had the advantages of Olivia and Emma Handler, raised on a Gatsby-esque estate, until two untimely deaths tarnished their once-charmed life. A Modern-Day Gatsby: The Tragedy of Two Gilded ...
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Before The Tortured Poets Department was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift’s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to classic literature. As early as 2006 ...
Zelda Sayre was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on July 24, 1900, the youngest of six children. [1] Her parents were Episcopalians. [29] Her mother, Minerva Buckner "Minnie" Machen, named her daughter after the Roma heroine in a novel, presumably Jane Howard's "Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony" (1866) or Robert Edward Francillon's "Zelda's Fortune" (1874). [30]