The Great Gatsby wasn’t considered a revelation when it was first released in 1925.Critics shrugged and sales lagged. Readers weren’t quite ready for the novel, which follows the shy and ...

It`s been 100 years since The Great Gatsby was first published, but the echoes of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal classic still ring loud and clear — whether in terms of its exploration of the ...

F Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous creation is also his best-dressed. Jay Gatsby, the enigmatic West Egg millionaire at the centre of The Great Gatsby, was said to have been based on notorious ...

People are encouraged to dress in their finest 1920s attire. There will be a Great Gatsby-inspired fashion contest to showcase flapper dresses, suits and sparkling accessories.

By the 1970s, The Great Gatsby was a near-universal part of the American high school curriculum; its characters became shorthand for the uniquely American struggle between personal freedom and ...