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The Great Gatsby (book)

Jessica @JESSY3236 (22287) • United States 3 Mar 16

Like I said earlier I finished listening to the audiobook of The Great Gatsby. I don't think we read it in school. I missed alot of school because of having bronchitis alot and other issues. Plus I wasn't too into classics back...

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How do you understand " Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope" ?

54susan @54susan (281) • China 13 Aug 10

That's a sentence in The Great Gatsby. The following sentence is : I am still afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of fundamental decencies is parceled...

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A question about translation of "Confidences"

54susan @54susan (281) • China 13 Aug 10

Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by soem unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate...

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Some questions about " The Great Gatsby"

54susan @54susan (281) • China 9 Aug 10

Hello my dear friends here, I'm meeting many difficulties when reading ' the great gatsby' because of my poor English. Can anyone help me? 1- 'The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it...

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1920s Style

anna728 @anna728 (1499) • United States 22 Aug 09

Fitzerald was an important 1920s figure, and his books like "The Great Gatsby" were set in the Roaring Twenties, as it is called, as well. It was a time known for prohibition, economic prosperity, the charleston, joy that the war...

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Are there any classic novels or books that DON'T end tragically?

Amber @AmbiePam (121144) • United States 4 Oct 08

I realize that the writers had the intent of making points about the society we lived in, but I can't think of but one classic novel or book that didn't end with a tragedy. I just finished The Great Gatsby by F. Scott...

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Why The Great Gatsby been hailed as one of the best novels of the 20th Century

punichow @punichow (40) • Philippines 5 Dec 06

For me it's because of the novel's depth and style.

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