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Author · 1896–1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American novelist and short-story writer of the Jazz Age.

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece on wealth, desire, and the American Dream in its fullest delusion. The brief covers who Gatsby is and why he fails, the machinery of class that destroys him, and why the ending matters.