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The Great Gatsby

"The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature."

From the back cover of A Cornell Edition of The Great Gatsby.

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From the Web - Resources available for all readers

• Understanding The Great Gatsby - A Research Guide for Students - An aggregation of links to all things Gatsby online.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Web site includes links, maps, audio clips, etc.
• C-Span American Writers II: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
  See the Video Archive which includes a 2 hour program from 2002 on Fitzgerald and Gatsby.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page

  Trimalchio and The Great Gatsby - Online exhibition documenting the composition, reception, and reputation of The Great Gatsby.

  Getting It Right: The Publishing Process and the Correction of Factual Errors – with Reference to The Great Gatsby (Matthew J. Bruccoli)

• Gatsby Annotations - An alphabetical glossary of terms and phrases that define and describe people, places, and things mentioned in the novel. Includes links to related web sites and audio files for the songs mentioned in the text. Ain't We Got Fun (p. 95)

  A-C - D-L - M-Z
  Concordance to The Great Gatsby

• Reviews from 1925

Life Magazine's one sentence review:
"Fantastic proof that chivalry, of a sort, is not dead."
(May 7, 1925)

New York Times
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Time Magazine

• Flanagan, Thomas. Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World'. New York Review of Books. Volume 47, Number 20, December 21, 2000. - Offers a review of Gatsby and its earlier version, Trimalchio.

 

Digital Resources from the Cornell University Library Collections

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E-books

• Bloom, Harold, ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1996. [NetLibrary]
• The Great Gatsby: Awakening from the American Dream [e-Scholarhip edition]

E-journals

• Bryer, Jackson. "Four Decades of Fitzgerald Studies: The Best and the Brightest". Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 26, No. 2, F. Scott Fitzgerald Issue. (Summer, 1980), pp. 247-267. [JSTOR]
• McCall, Dan. "The Self-Same Song that Found a Path": Keats and The Great Gatsby". American Literature, Vol. 42, No. 4. (Jan., 1971), pp. 521-530. [JSTOR] Dan McCall is a Cornell emeritus professor of English.

 

Additional Cornell Library Resources

Books

• Bruccoli, Matthew J., ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: A Documentary Volume. Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 219. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.
  Uris Library Reference PS129 .D55 v.219+
  
• Donaldson, Scott, ed. Critical Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1984.
  Olin Library PS3511.I91 G705
  Uris Library PS3511.I91 G705
  
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  Olin Library PS3511.I9 T75x 2000
  
• Gross, Dalton, and MaryJean Gross. Understanding The Great Gatsby: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
  Uris Library PS3511.I9 G846x 1998
  
• Mizener, Arthur. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1963.
  Olin Library PS3511.I91 Z698
  Uris Library PS3511.I91 Z698

Audio books

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Old Greenwich, CT: Listening Library ; Auburn, CA: Audio Partners, 1985, c1977. [3 sound cassettes (4 hrs., 30 min.), Read by Alexander Scourby.]
  Olin Library Media Center PS3511.I91 G7 1985
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Harper Audio, 2002. [6 compact discs (ca. 7 hrs.), Read by Tim Robbins.]
  Olin Library Media Center
  PS3511.I9 G7 2002

 

 

 

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