Gatsby has become more than just a novel, but instead an exploration of what literature can mean.
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The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux after the first world war.
Fitzgerald’s uncannily prescient masterpiece of wealth and ambition is an enduring classic. But though it’s sold over 250 million copies, it wasn’t an instant success.
An expert in literary classics recommends 5 rich, classic page-turners to read over summer – and explains why they’re still relevant today. She also shares her favourite lines.
In the first wave to hit the beach, troops were met by withering German gunfire. But they kept pushing and established a small beachhead from which the invasion could continue.
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
Emily Perkins’ ‘intoxicating’ new novel unfolds in the wake of a husband’s corruption scandal – which threatens his wife’s carefully curated lifestyle brand and forces her to question everything.
Status anxiety and conspicuous consumption generate a dazzling, often surreal poetry in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. But Gatsby’s rise and fall exposes deep fissures underlying the American Dream.
It’s impossible to see a film with the hype of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby without preconceptions. The build-up to this film has been overwhelming with trailers splashed across screens everywhere…
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