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Introduction
The Great Gatsby is novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. The narrator, Nick Carraway, is a young Princeton man who works as a bond broker in Manhattan. His neighbour at West Egg, Long Island, is Jay Gatsby, a self-made Midwesterner of considerable wealth. Nick watches as Gatsby is betrayed by his own dreams, which have been nurtured by a meretricious society.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald. (2015). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/34427F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, was an American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925).
Podcasts
- Gilbert, H. (2013, May 5). World Book Club: The Great Gatsby [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/world-book-club-great-gatsby/id263658343?i=158027795&mt=2
This month a very special edition of World Book Club coming from New York City in the USA. We’re partnering up with the acclaimed Leonard Lopate Show’s Book Club on the New York radio station WNYC. In advance of the much anticipated film about to open worldwide we’ve come here to discuss that classic novel of The Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby. - Corrigan, M. (2014, September 9). How Gatsby went from a moldering flop to a great American novel [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=346346588&m=346854952In So We Read On, Maureen Corrigan looks at the story behind The Great Gatsby, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's life to the era in which it's set. She says it's her favourite novel, but it wasn't always.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Essays
- Fitzgerald, F. S. (2008, February 26). 'The crack-up' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Retrieved from http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4310/the-crack-up/The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery.
- Hampl, P. (2012, March 1). F. Scott Fitzgerald’s essays from the edge. Retrieved from https://theamericanscholar.org/f-scott-fitzgeralds-essays-from-the-edge/#.ViD1iKL88n8The Jazz Age novelist’s chronicle of his mental collapse, much derided by his critics, anticipated the rise of autobiographical writing in America