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Fiction · Modernism

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925 · 208 pages

Gatsby throws enormous parties hoping the woman he loved will wander into one. Fitzgerald made the Jazz Age America's myth of itself, and the last page is the most beautiful in American writing.

★ 9.4