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Themed cocktails and escape rooms… 100 years on, we’ve lost sight of the real Great Gatsby
a Great Gatsby-inspired suite at New York’s Plaza Hotel. You can buy Gatsby candles, a Gatsby board game, a Gatsby range from Tiffany’s, complete with a Savoy headband inlaid with diamonds and ...
The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years
all those drinking parties with girls in backwards headbands, all those mediocre movies and bad plays. Here’s the story of ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at 100
Fitzgerald lived in a much more modest house just a few miles away when he was writing "The Great Gatsby." The Schietingers, though, believe the author must have visited here. They imagine him ...
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At 100 “The Great Gatsby” is as urgent as ever, old sport
A quarter of “The Great Gatsby” has passed before ... with its two-tone brogues and flapper headbands, and the garish film of 2013 with Leo nardo DiCaprio (pictured) are both a bit too ...
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Ludicrously lavish, The Great Gatsby musical lacks a basic level of respect for F Scott Fitzgerald’s original
Anyone who’s ever dressed up in a sequinned headband or felt fedora will recognise the 1920s trappings of this flashy Broadway musical version of The Great Gatsby. There’s jaunty dancing in ...
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The centennial of “The Great Gatsby”: reflecting on its cultural legacy
In April 2025, the centennial of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” will be celebrated, marking 100 years since its original publication in 1925. Widely considered one of the most ...
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"The Great Gatsby" turns 100: Initially a sales flop, now regarded as the "great American novel"
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great ...
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'The Great Gatsby': The Great American Novel turns 100. Why it is still great
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" has become a literary classic, selling half a million copies annually, despite its initial lack of success. The novel's enduring appeal lies in its ...
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Review: The sister of ‘The Great Gatsby’ solves a murder in ‘The Gatsby Gambit’Review: The sister of ‘The Great Gatsby’ solves a murder in ‘The Gatsby Gambit’
If you polled 100 people about who is the awfullest among the awful people in “The Great Gatsby,” I bet 99 of them would answer “that louse Tom Buchanan.” In the new “The Gatsby Gambit ...
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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 ...
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‘The Great Gatsby’ is a classic. But a century ago, it flopped.
F. Scott Fitzgerald would be flabbergasted to hear that on the 100th anniversary of its publication, “The Great Gatsby” is being celebrated around the world. Fitzgerald knew that he had ...
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Themed cocktails and escape rooms… 100 years on, we’ve lost sight of the real Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a slippery text. It means different things to different people. To some it is a monolith of American literature – a key contender in the Great American Novel sweepstakes ...