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

At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.


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