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The Great Gatsby
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Ellie 9218
Mar 26, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorites
I read The Great Gatsby many years ago, and thanks to an April book club selection, I dusted off my high school copy and re-read this classic tale. Wow! What an amazing piece of literature.

The story is set in Long Island in the midst of the roaring 1920's, a time full of economic prosperity. As seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story of greed, affairs, forgotten love, lies, deceit, friendships, and deaths.

Throughout the book we are introduced to a web of charact
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