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

The rain cooled about half past three to a damp mist through which occasional thin drops swam like dew.


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Author-Fitzgerald F Scott Title-Great Gatsby The Year-1925 Period-20th Century Type-Fiction Publisher-Scribner

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They sounded like cicada in dry summer that cling on leafy trees and send out voices rhythmic and long – so droned and murmured these old leaders of the Trojans on the tower, and watching Helen as she climbed the stair in undertones they said to one another: “We cannot rage at her, it is no wonder that Trojans and Akhaians under arms should for so long have borne the pains of war for one like this.”

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