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• Great Gatsby, The
  Great Gatsby, The

  noun

  a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• The Great Gatsby
  The Great Gatsby

  (1925) A novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, recounting the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby, who lives extravagantly from bootlegging and other criminal activities. He loves a beautiful woman, Daisy, who is the cause of his downfall.

Great Gatsby, The

American  

[gats-bee] / ˈgæts bi /

noun

1. a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The Great Gatsby Cultural  

1. (1925) A novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, recounting the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby, who lives extravagantly from bootlegging and other criminal activities. He loves a beautiful woman, Daisy, who is the cause of his downfall.

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Great Gatsby, The The Great Gatsby

Neither does Immersive Everywhere’s “The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show,” a jovial feast for the senses that never, in its lagging two-and-a-half-hour running time, truly rises above the status of a mere attraction.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

“The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show,” which made its debut in London eight years ago, opened last week at the Park Central Hotel in New York.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Queen of Versailles: a twisted cousin of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby ends at night, on the beach.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2012

A star of films such as An Education, The Great Gatsby and Drive, she was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her services to drama.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

Among the highlights is a copy of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with a dedication to screenwriter Harold Goldman inscribed inside the front cover to "the original Gatsby".

From Reuters ● Jul. 10, 2023

The Great Gatsby wears No. 3 in orange and blue.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Tamzin’s RfA page stands at about 65,000 words, making it roughly 40 percent longer than the text of The Great Gatsby, and that’s not counting the side discussions that sprang up in several anti-Wikipedia sites.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2022

Volpe’s favorite book, we all knew, was The Great Gatsby.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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