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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.
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a long prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the 16th century. Having finished one version of his text, Sidney later significantly expanded and revised his work.
Nearly every novel by Fitzgerald has been adapted for the screen. His second novel The Beautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and 2010. [4] His third novel The Great Gatsby has been adapted numerous times for both film and television over the past century, most notably in the 1926, 1949, 1958, 1974, 2000, and 2013 incarnations. [5]
The series is presented by Greg Edwards in character as Sparky Sweets, Ph.D; the character hosts the series in an "original gangster" style.[7]The following is an example of Sweets' style from his analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird, one of his most popular: [7] "Only a jive-ass fool would bother capping a mockingbird, 'cause all them bitches do is just drop next-level beats for your enjoyment.
The Great Gatsby. Smith first read The Great Gatsby as a high school student, but he did not fully understand it at the time. [2] In 2014, after living in Europe, Smith reread the novel for the first time in several years. [5] He came to identify with its narrator Nick Carraway and was drawn to Carraway's sense of detachment. [2]
Arcadia is the second novel by Lauren Groff published in 2012 by Hachette. It is set in Upstate New York during the 1960s and 70s, and depicts a utopian commune through the eyes of the settlement's first-born child, Bit. The commune is situated on the grounds of an old and crumbling homestead.
[2] [3] In the Fitzgerald canon, scholars categorize "Winter Dreams" as part of the so-called "Gatsby-cluster" as the author expanded upon its themes in his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. [2] Writing his editor Max Perkins in June 1925, Fitzgerald described the short story as a "first draft of the Gatsby idea." [4]
The Arcadia is James Shirley's dramatization of the prose romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, one expression of the enormous influence ...