![]() ![]() In fact, it sold poorly, so much so that Fitzgerald died in 1940 thinking of himself as a failure, having produced no work of any substantial worth. Scott and Zelda were married on April 3, 1920. Through his protagonist Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald finally found his hero and wrote for the world a tragedy that it has scarcely forgotten even after over 90 years. Though he authored four novels and innumerable short stories in his lifetime, Fitzgerald is best known for writing The Great Gatsby (1925), a dispassionate account reflecting the decadence and corruption that engulfed America in the 1920s, before the Great Depression. So closely did Fitzgerald’s art imitate his life. It’s quite like the iconic scene in which Jay Gatsby is introduced in the story that established Fitzgerald as one of the most important voices of the Jazz Age. If you’re thinking that you have read about or seen such a party somewhere, maybe in a movie or a book on which it was based, you’re right. ![]() Happy birthday, George Orwell: 4 reasons for you to pick up 1984 again ![]()
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