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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career.
First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
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I read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald every 2-3 years and never get tired of it. The writing is gorgeous and it has the best last line in all of literature. Another of my favorite short r...
-Lana_Maskus
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My absolute favorite quote from a book is the last line of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." It is so beautifully written and so descriptive of life and histor...
-Lana_Maskus
What are you reading this week? (04/10/2025)
I'm reading the Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald and The sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
-Jo_S
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.
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