F. SCOTT FITZGERALD: THE GREAT GATSBY (With Text)

F. Scott Fitzgerald : The Great Gatsby American novelist, short story writer and scenarist, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) explored the disintegration of the American dream in This side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and his last unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 to mixed reviews and Fitzgerald died believing himself to be a failure. However, the Fitzgerald revival in the late 1950’s put The Great Gatsby in the tradition of the Great American Novel. The present critical study places The Great Gatsby in the Jazz Age of the 1920’s, and examines and assesses the novel from various critical and textual angle’s. In addition to the definitive text, this study deals with and discusses significant details of Fitzgerald’s multi-layered magnum opus. Shakti Batra, formerly Vice-Principal of Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi). He has taught at The Kabul University and the International University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. Now associated with Surjeet Publications, Batra has to his credit critical studies of Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines, Anita Desai : Voices In the City, Aphra Behn's : The Rover, Bernard Shaw : Candida, Bertolt Brecht : The Good Woman of Szechuan, D. H. Lawrence : The Rainbow, Dario Fo : Accidental Death of An Anarchist, Eugene lonesco : Rhinoceros, Feodor, Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment, Gabriel Garcia Marquez : The Chronicle of a Death Foretold, J. D. Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye, Jean Genet : The Balcony, Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness, Johan August Strindberg : Miss Julie, John Isben : Ghosts, Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina, Margaret Atwood : Surfacing, Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter, Neruda, Walcott and Atwood : Poets of the Americas, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o & Micere Githae Mugo : The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Ernest , Tagore : The Home & the World, Salman Rushdie : The Midnight's Children, Tennessee Williams : The Glass Managerie, Tennessee Williams : A Street Car Named Desire, W. Goldings : Lord of the Flies, William Faulkner : The Sound and the Fury, William Shakespeare : Tempest, Wole Soyinka : Kongi's Harvest, Wole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel

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