Main Title: Great Gatsby, The
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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
First Published: 1925
Publisher Used for Citing: Scribner
Type: Fiction
Period: 20th Century

“After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe – Paris, Venice, Rome – collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to be long ago.”


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A lovely sloop stood away from us, her genoa set like a curving scarf, and all the coastal craft trudged up the Sound or wallowed heavily toward New York.

-- Travels with Charley - Steinbeck, John - 1962