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Though only a fraction of its Gilded Age mansions remain, Long Island still offers a glimpse of the opulence that F. Scott ...
The Gatsby quote that Bill Gates has inscribed on the wall in his home library reads, “His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” In an age in which ...
The Great Neck Library will celebrate the centennial of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” with a month-long series of events that highlight the novel’s literary legacy and its ...
The Great Neck Library will have a 3D printed model of the Gatsby mansion on display and paintings inspired by the novel to celebrate the 100th anniversary of “The Great Gatsby.” Credit ...
In his new book, the former Hartford Courant columnist does a deep dive into the words, themes, actions and turns of phrase ...
When the Modern Library asked authors, historians, critics and publishers on the eve of Y2K to rank their picks for the world's best novels of the 20th century, it was "The Great Gatsby" that ...
including the only surviving handwritten manuscript of "Gatsby," which Emma Sarconi, a rare book librarian at Princeton's Special Collections at the Firestone Library, showed us. "Here we have ...
In fact, if it weren’t for World War II and “Gatsby” being chosen as one of the Army Library Service’s Armed Services Editions — small paperbacks distributed to U.S. troops — the book ...
“Gatsby” tells us that the American Dream ... Princeton’s Firestone Library has Fitzgerald’s copy of the first printing of the first edition. I’ve had the privilege of paging through ...
Alayne Hopkins is Senior Director of Programs and Services of the Friends of the Saint Paul Library. You can find a link to events celebrating 100 years of The Great Gatsby on our website ...
It also includes an array of editions of “The Great Gatsby.” “I acquire materials for the museum and library, so they can be used,” Hujda said. “It’s really fun to acquire new and interesting things, ...
“My God I am a forgotten man,” Fitzgerald wrote to his wife, Zelda. “Gatsby had to be taken out of the Modern Library because it didn’t sell, which was a blow.” Two months ...