Great Gatsby, The

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Age range 8 to 12

As the summer unfolds, Nick is drawn into Gatsby's world of luxury cars, speedboats and extravagant parties. But the more he hears about Gatsby even from what Gatsby himself tells him the less he seems to believe.

Did he really go to Oxford University Was Gatsby a hero in the war Did he once kill a man Nick recalls how he comes to know Gatsby and how he also enters the world of his cousin Daisy and her wealthy husband Tom. Does their money make them any happier Do the stories all connect Shall we come to know the real Gatsby after reading Nick's account of that fateful summer

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 1940) was an American writer, now widely regarded as one of the greatest of the 20th century. Among his works are Tender is the Night, The Last Tycoon and of course, The Great Gatsby. His works are windows into the Jazz Age America of the 1920s.