The Great Gatsby (1925)  Tags: fitzgerald great gatsby  

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Full text of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is available on the Web at:

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about The Great Gatsby. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• American Writers Since 1900
• American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies [vol 2]
• Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature
• Contemporary Authors [vols 110, 123]
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction [vol 3]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 2]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 2]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 1]
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Literary Masterpieces: The Great Gatsby
• Literature and Its Times [vol 3]
  
• Masterplots [vol 5]
• Modern American Literature [vols 1, 4, 5, 6]
• Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vol 56] - locate the topical essay "The Novel of Manners"
    
• Notable American Novelists [vol 2]
• Novels for Students [vol 2]
  
• The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States
• Student Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Thematic Guide to the American Novel
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 1, 6, 14, 28, 55, 157] - check under The Great Gatsby in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 54] - locate the topical essay "Crime in Twentieth-Century Literature"
    
  • [vol 70] - locate the topical essays, "Modernism" and "Alcohol and Literature"
  • [vol 82] - locate the topical essay "Blues in Literature"
  • [vol 110] - locate the topical essay "Christianity in Twentieth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 130] - locate the "Special Commissioned Essay on the American Novel of Manners"
  • [vol 142] - locate the topical essay "The Grail Theme in Twentieth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 178] - locate the topical essay "Writers of the Lost Generation"
  • [vol 210] - locate the topical essay "The American Dream in Literature"
    
• Understanding The Great Gatsby: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
• World Authors 1900-1950 [vol 2]

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• Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  

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