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The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception and disappointing sales on publication in 1925, through its increasing popularity in the 1940s, to its critical and popular elevation from the standing of an important 'period piece' to that of an undisputed classic of American literature. Of the five essays that follow, one traces this revival in greater detail, and another sets the book in the context of the perennial quest for the 'great American novel'. Two other essays examine the central from the perspective of a practising contemporary novelist.
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The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception and disappointing sales on publication in 1925, through its increasing popularity in the 1940s, to its critical and popular elevation from the standing of an important 'period piece' to that of an undisputed classic of American literature.
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IN his 1944 novel The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson permits his protagonist, Don Birnam, to fall into the fantasy of lecturing to a literature class (the novel's time is roughly 1935): He took down The Great Gatsby and ran his finger over the fine green binding. Read the first page
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IN his 1944 novel The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson permits his protagonist, Don Birnam, to fall into the fantasy of lecturing to a literature class (the novel's time is roughly 1935): He took down The Great Gatsby and ran his finger over the fine green binding. Read the first page
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The aim of this collection of essays is to place 'The Great Gatsby' within the tradition of the American novel. This means it has relevance both to students doing American Studies at University, and teachers and students studying the novel at A level.Broccoli's repution as an authority on Fitzgerald makes him amptly suited to this task, and gives himn a discriminative overview for his selction: insights in the introduction lead to an overview of the almost eponential growth in Fitzgerald studies, and in 'Gatsby's long shadow', and the influence of 'Gatsby' on later American writers.Essays also included include thematic ones such as 'money, love, and aspiration', the idea of order at West Egg' and style. Some might comment that text referehces are to the Scribner's edition of the novel - given the target readership in the first place is an American one, but given the length of the novel, it is not an over onorous task to find pages refernces in say the Penquin or the Oxford edition
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I think the book wasn't worth my precious time!!! :)
26 April 1999
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The book was boring and had no point exept showing how people back in the 1900's liked to party, drink,and DWI. The only thing good in this novel was when they all killed each other!
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