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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A story of Americans on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Gatsby : the Cultural History of the Great American Novel, Bob Batchelor explores the birth, life, and enduring influence of The Great Gatsby--from the book's publication in 1925 through today's headlines fillled with celebrity intrigue, corporate greed, and a roller-coaster economy. Batchelor explains why and how the novel has become part of the fiber of the American ethos and an important tool in helping readers to better comprehend their lives...
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no 36
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Author
Series
Spectrum book Twentieth century views volume S-TC-27
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre meets Lieutenant Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at a country club dance, he isn't rich or settled; no one knows his people; and he wants, of all things, to be a writer in New York. After Scott sells his first novel, Zelda defies her parents to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral. It is the Jazz Age, and for Zelda and Scott the future will be grander and stranger than they could...