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The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews from literary critics of the day. [142] Edwin Clark of The New York Times felt the novel was a mystical and glamorous tale of the Jazz Age. [143] Similarly, Lillian C. Ford of the Los Angeles Times hailed the novel as a revelatory work of art that "leaves the reader in a mood of chastened ...
[328] Today, The Great Gatsby is often cited as a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the "Great American Novel". [3] [332] Nine years after the publication of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald completed his fourth novel Tender Is the Night in 1934.
The Great Gatsby: Scribners, 1925: Wikisource; Read: Tender Is the Night: Scribners, 1934: Original version (1934) Version edited by Malcolm Cowley (1951) Read: The Last Tycoon (First version) The Love of the Last Tycoon (Second version) Scribners, 1941 Cambridge University, 1993: Unfinished; published posthumously Version edited by Edmund ...
Celestial Eyes is a painting painted in 1924 by Spanish painter Francis Cugat and preserved at the Princeton University Library for the Graphic Arts Collection. [1] [2]The Art Deco style work is the cover of Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, set in the 1920s Jazz Age and considered one of the most representative novels of American literature.
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 Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald.It was edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1989.
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]
Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. [1] As one of the self-proclaimed "Big Four" debutantes of Chicago during World War I, [2] King inspired many characters in the novels and short stories of Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; in particular, the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. [3]