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News Articles: The Great Gatsby

After 100 years, <em>The Great Gatsby </em>is still a staple of high school reading lists.

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

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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  • Andrew Limbong
A first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's <em>The Great Gatsby</em> at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair on June 13, 2013.

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

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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  • Maureen Corrigan
When F. Scott Fitzgerald published <em>The Great Gatsby</em> in 1925, it didn't sell many copies. Now it's sold nearly 30 million.

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

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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  • Scott Simon
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 <em>The Great Gatsby</em> at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in London in 2013.

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

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."

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  • Neda Ulaby

GPB Hosts Discuss Fiction, Fantasy, 'Fifty Shades' For The Great American Read

Reading as children and adults shape our sense of self and the world around us. GPB is exploring the country's 100 most-loved novels with the series ...

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