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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.
Daisy Fay Buchanan is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is a wealthy socialite from Louisville, Kentucky, who resides in the fashionable town of East Egg on Long Island during the Jazz Age.
Corrigan investigates what makes F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby so captivating and influential, through "archives, high school classrooms, and even out onto the Long Island Sound, to explore the novel's hidden depths, a journey whose revelations include Gatsby's surprising debt to hard-boiled crime fiction, its rocky path to recognition ...
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.
Chiles was born in Houston, the daughter of Marion Clay Chiles and Barbara Wayne Kirkland Chiles.Her paternal uncle was oil tycoon and Texas Rangers owner Eddie Chiles. [2] [3] [4] She had two brothers: Clay Kirkland Chiles (died 1979), [citation needed] and William Edmonds Chiles, president and CEO of Bristow Group, Inc.
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]
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.
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby. Little, Brown Book Group Ltd, 2013. ISBN 1-84408-767-0. Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream. Bloomsbury, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4088-9480-4. The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells. Apollo Publishing International, 2022.