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

Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.


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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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