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Umm Al Qura UniversityFaculty of Social Sciences

English Department

F. Scott Fitzgerald

20th Century Novel

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American novelist and short story writer.

He was born in Minnesota and educated at

Princeton.

Francis Scott FITZGERALD Key (1896-1940):

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Literary Career

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Marriage to Zelda Sayre

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The Jazz Age

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Short Stories

He published short stories in fashionable

periodicals such as the Saturday Evening Post,

Vanity Fair, and the Smart Set.

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The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

A novel about a wealthy, doomed,

and dissipated marriage.

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The Great Gatsby (1925)

It is widely considered his finest work.

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The Plot of The Great Gatsby

This is the story of shady, mysterious financier Jay Gatsby's romantic

and destructive passion for Daisy Buchanan, played against a backdrop

of Long Island glamour and New York squalor; the story is narrated by

the innocent outsider Nick Carraway, Gatsby's neighbour and Daisy's

distant cousin, who observes from a distance as infidelity, hard

drinking, fast driving, and finally murder take their toll, as the age of

'miracles, art and excess' turns to ashes.

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Tender Is the Night (1934)

The novel depicts the story of the American psychiatrist, Dick Diver and his schizophrenic wife Nicole.

It shows Fitzgerald’s own sense of impending disaster as his wife, Zelda was suffering from mental breakdown.

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The Last Tycoon (1941)

It was published posthumously and edited

by E. Wilson.

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Resource:

Drabble, Margaret, The Oxford Companion to English

Literature. 6th edition. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

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Wish You a pleasant time in 20th Century Course

& may Allah bless your times.