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Excerpt: The Great Gatsby

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America

The Great Gatsby — 100 years old? How can that be? To borrow the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby possesses "all the iridescence of the beginning ...
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100 years of 'The Great Gatsby'

F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved classic "The Great Gatsby" is 100 years old today. The novel has been adapted numerous times, including a new musical that opened on Broadway last year. Now, "Gatsby" got ...
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How 'Gatsby' Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American Novel

When book critic Maureen Corrigan first read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in high school, she was unimpressed. "Not a lot happens in Gatsby," Corrigan tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It's ...
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'The Great Gatsby' Movie: 7 Reasons You Should See It

Allow these fabulous flapper girls to welcome you into this post: The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, ...