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Defining American literature

Updated on: 11 November,2010 09:09 AM IST  | 
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According to reports, director Baz Luhrmann is planning to make a film on F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. CS gives you some trivia on the book

Defining American literature

According to reports, director Baz Luhrmann is planning to make a film on F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. CS gives you some trivia on the book:

>>u00a0It was first published on April 10, 1925. Set on Long Island's North Shore and NYC, it's a critique on the American Dream.

>>u00a0The cover of The Great Gatsby is a celebrated piece of jacket art in American literature. It was made by a little known artist Francis Cugat.u00a0

>>u00a0Though critically acclaimed, it didn't enjoy the commercial success of Fitzgerald's two previous novels This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned.

>>u00a0The Armed Services Editions gave away 150,000 copies of the book to the American Military in World War II.u00a0

>>u00a0It has been filmed six times till now.




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