The Great
Gatsby is one of the world's most loved books. Gatsby is the enigmatic and mysterious anti hero that has captured
reader's imagination for many years.
Read some
reviews of the book to refresh your memory to deepen your understanding of this
beloved novel.
Review from the Guardian by Sarah Churchwell
What makes the Great Gatsby Great also by Sarah Churchwell
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The graphic novel interpretation by Nicki Greenberg is a novel way of re-introducing yourself to the book or perhaps just a more interesting way of reading it for the first time!
For more serious readers try some of the notes that go with the novel or
perhaps read a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. For a biography on both Scott and Zelda try Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald : sometimes madness is wisdom. Explore the twenties flapper life in Bright young things : life in the roaring twenties by Alison Maloney.
Try reading another novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Novels:
The beautiful and the damned 1920
This side of paradise 1920
Tender is the night 1934
Collections of short stories
Flappers and philosophers 1920
Tales of the Jazz Age 1922
All the sad men 1926
Bits of paradise
perhaps read a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. For a biography on both Scott and Zelda try Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald : sometimes madness is wisdom. Explore the twenties flapper life in Bright young things : life in the roaring twenties by Alison Maloney.
Try reading another novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Novels:
The beautiful and the damned 1920
This side of paradise 1920
Tender is the night 1934
Collections of short stories
Flappers and philosophers 1920
Tales of the Jazz Age 1922
All the sad men 1926
Bits of paradise
Watch previous versions of the book to film interpretations on DVD.
the Jazz Age.
For the musically inclined try The great Gatsby: hit songs of the 1920s or relive dazzling moments from the film with the official soundtrack.