The Great Gatsby

'The Great Gatsby' turns 100. What's it like teaching it today?

6:11pm April 09, 2025

by Andrew Limbong

F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it today? And do students still find it relevant?

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The UK's Oldest Book Fair, The London International Antiquarian Book Fair

100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America

2:43pm April 08, 2025

Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound and timeless. And, boy, does Gatsby have something to say to us in 2025.

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When F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925, it didn't sell many copies. Now it's sold nearly 30 million.

Books

Opinion: 'The Great Gatsby' Enters Public Domain But It Already Entered Our Hearts

2:09pm January 02, 2021

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The literary classic's copyright expired on the first day of 2021.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka and many more authors and artists have 1925 works entering the public domain on January 1. Above, a first edition of The Great Gatsby at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in L

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Party Like It's 1925 On Public Domain Day (Gatsby And Dalloway Are In)

12:30pm January 01, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

Every year on January 1, the copyright on thousands of books, songs, films and other creative works expires. Law professor Jennifer Jenkins says 2021 is "a bumper crop."