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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

Classics · ranked #11 in category

Wealth, longing and a green light across the bay in the Jazz Age — short, perfect and quietly devastating.

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Category
Classics
First published
1925 · 1920s
Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Standing
Essential Read

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