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Jul 2025
41m 52s

100 Years of ‘The Great Gatsby’

The New York Times
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This year, “The Great Gatsby” turns 100. A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, tells the story of how an overlooked book by a 28-year-old author eventually became the great American novel, and explores why all of these decades later, we still see ourselves in its pages. 
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