Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–1926: Library of America, 2022: The Great Gatsby; All the Sad Young Men; 16 Stories and 9 essays: Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories: University of South Carolina Press, 2001: all available in earlier collections
The novel did not sell well upon publication, with approximately 12,000 sold in the first three months, [210] but, like The Great Gatsby, the book's reputation has since grown significantly. [ 211 ] Great Depression and decline
Samuel Kaboo Morris (1873 – May 12, 1893) was a Liberian prince who converted to evangelical Christianity around the age of 14. He left Liberia for the United States of America to achieve an education at around the age of 18.
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]
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]
Near the end of his life, he would write that in Liberia “I had lost my heart to West Africa.” [2] He said he “never wearied of the villages” where he stopped each night, but during the daily hike through the forest “the senses were dulled and registered only acute boredom.” [3] Greene's account provides insights into Liberia in 1935.
Bradbury was a productive academic writer as well as a successful teacher; an expert on the modern novel, he published books on Evelyn Waugh, Saul Bellow and E. M. Forster, as well as editions of such modern classics as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and a number of surveys and handbooks of modern fiction, both British and American.