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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.
In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, Fitzgerald stated that it was originally intended to be the prologue of his later novel The Great Gatsby, but that it "interrupted with the neatness of the plan". [4] In 1934, Fitzgerald wrote in a letter to a fan that the story was intended to show Gatsby's early life, but was cut to preserve his "sense of mystery".
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter I, The Great Gatsby [57] The character of Daisy Buchanan speaks one sentence in the novel partly drawn from Fitzgerald's wife Zelda, although greatly altered. [ 58 ] When their daughter Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota , on October 26, 1921, Fitzgerald recorded verbatim his wife's ...
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]
Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is a Yale University alumnus from the American Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg on Long Island, near New York City.
The Crack-Up is a 1945 posthumous collection of essays by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.It includes three essays Fitzgerald originally wrote for Esquire which were first published in 1936, including the title essay, along with previously unpublished letters and notes.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of 11 short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Divided into three separate parts, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Upon publication—and somewhat belying the notion that Fitzgerald's most famous novel had not been enthusiastically received—The New York Times wrote, "The publication of this volume of short stories might easily have been an anti-climax after the perfection and success of The Great Gatsby of last Spring. A novel so ...