F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference
The newspaper stories, letters and real people behind The Great Gatsby, gathered in one volume.
Matthew J. Bruccoli’s documentary companion to The Great Gatsby. It gathers newspaper stories, letters, photographs and other contemporary material to show the real people and events behind the novel, from the Black Sox scandal to the gangster Arnold Rothstein, along with material on how the book was written and received.
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Sarah Churchwell
This is a collection of historical documents – it’s the book equivalent of an hour-long documentary film that draws on a historical archive to tell you the background and context of a certain work of art.
Interview · June 2012
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