Many of us first encountered "The Great Gatsby" in a high school English class, there meeting the mysterious Jay Gatsby, his observant neighbor Nick Carraway and his siren-like cousin Daisy Buchanan.

"The Great Gatsby" is a timeless piece of literature by F. Scott Fitzgerald that generations have read since it was first published in 1925. The book is set during the Jazz Age on Long Island. The ...

West Hartford writer and teacher Rob Kyff makes no secret of his love for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby.” In his new book, “Gatsby’s Secrets: The Hidden Motifs, Moments and Metaphors ...

In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it. “My God I am a ...

Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” opens wide this Friday. Eighty-eight years before -- to the day -- the Los Angeles Times ran this review of the original “The Great Gatsby,” the novel by F. Scott ...

This year marks 100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” and much has been written about the novel (and the movies it spawned). My colleague Philip Martin wrote an excellent column about ...

Here's a rundown of the changes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Putting together a film based on a highly acclaimed literary ...

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Before Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby adaptation hit theaters this weekend, we wondered whether—through all the gauze, confetti, Jay-Z, and 3D—this was actually going to be a film that approached the ...

The American Book Review recently asked literary experts to define a bad book. The resulting list — which features bestsellers and beloved classics (see "Top 40 Bad Books" in PDF form here) — has ...