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The Great Gatsby Study Guide

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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
About 82 pages (24,541 words)
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The Twenties by Edmund Wilson, one of Fitzgerald's friends at Princeton University and his entire life, is an interesting introduction to the decade and to the many cultural figures in America at that time. Another book by Wilson that chronicles the Twenties and Thirties is The Shores of Light, 1952. Personal impressions, sketches, letters, satires, and pieces on the classics of American literature are included in this book.

Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad, was a literary favorite of Fitzgerald, who used the Polish author's narrative technique in The Great Gatsby. The short novel is the story of the civilized Mr. Kurtz, who travels to the savage heart of Africa, only to find his evil soul.

Citizen Kane, Orson Welles's legendary 1941 film, is about a mogul who acquires tremendous financial.....

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