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    Originally publishedJune 30, 2020
    AuthorFred Fordham
    GenreGraphic Novels · Classics · Fiction · Comics · Historical Fiction · Graphic Novels Comics · Adult · Literature · Adult Fiction · Historical
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    The Secrets of Gatsby's Glamorous Life
    The Great Gatsby is one of the most famous novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and wealthy man who lives in a lavish mansion on Long Island in the 1920s.
    Historical and biographical context

    Set on the prosperous Long Island of 1922, The Great Gatsby provides a critical social history of Prohibition-era America during the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional narrative fully renders that period—known for its … See more

    Plot summary

    In spring 1922, Nick Carraway—a Yale alumnus from the Midwest and a World War I veteran—journeys to New York City to obtain employment as a bond salesman. He rents a bungalow in the Long Island village of West Egg, … See more

    Major characters

    • Nick Carraway – a Yale University alumnus from the Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg, age 29 (later 30) who serves as the first-person narrator. He is Gatsby's neighbor and a bon… See more

    Writing and production

    Fitzgerald began outlining his third novel in June 1922. He longed to produce an exquisite work that was beautiful and intricately patterned, but the troubled production of his stage play The Vegetable repeatedly … See more

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