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Tracing the Footsteps of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald on the French Riviera
It is easy to see why F. Scott Fitzgerald ... nursing my Rose Fitzgerald cocktail in the Belles Rives bar, I noticed a stone plaque mounted by the entrance. It quotes from one of Scott’s 1926 ...
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Why F. Scott Fitzgerald was buried in Rockville, Maryland — twice
F. Scott Fitzgerald's grave in Rockville, Maryland. (Courtesy JayHenry, Wikimedia Commons) Idaho is where you would have to go to see Ernest Hemingway’s grave. But a quick trip on Metro’s Red ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at 100
But not nearly as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald once spoke of that opulence: "A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other, like pale flags, twisting them up toward ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at 100
One hundred years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," a tragic tale of striving featuring an enigmatic millionaire, was published – and it bombed. Since then, its reputation has only ...
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The Great Gatsby at 100: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Class Consciousness Masterpiece
But when the stock market crashed in ’29 and the Depression of the 1930s hit families hard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the great Jazz Age novelist, fell out of favor with the literati and the populi.
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When Jazz Age celebrity couple F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Alabama
Famed author F ... and she and Scott moved to her hometown of Montgomery with Scottie in hopes of living a quiet and normal life. The Fitzgerald family arrived in Montgomery in fall of 1931 ...
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‘The Great Gatsby’ got a bad review in America. A century later, how do we see F. Scott Fitzgerald?
That is a shame because I would love to know who wrote this short 1925 review of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s new novel, which was published 100 years ago this week: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s earlier ...
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As It Turns 100, ‘The Great Gatsby’ Takes Several Turns in the Spotlight
The book by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the subject of exhibitions in New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and South Carolina. By Megan McCrea Reporting from Great Neck, N.Y. This article is part of our ...
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The real ‘Great Gatsby’: Meet the men who likely inspired the infamous novel
A guest had come on who had just published a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald — the late, great chronicler of the Roaring ‘20s and the pursuit of the American Dream. Within minutes ...
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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald Turns 100
Ultimately, the novel is a condemnation of greed and the upper class, an examination of the fallacy of the American dream, and, in Fitzgerald’s own words, a story of “aspiration”.
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Ludicrously lavish, The Great Gatsby musical lacks a basic level of respect for F Scott Fitzgerald’s original
But what Kait Kerrigan’s weirdly larky book and Marc Bruni’s ludicrously lavish production lack is a basic level of respect for F Scott Fitzgerald’s elegy for the Roaring Twenties ...
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Say, Old Sport
“It seems that pretty soon the earth’s going to fall into the sun — or wait a minute — it’s just the opposite — the sun’s getting cooler every year.” F. Scott Fitzgerald could writ ...