Tag: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby, Crime Fiction Tropes, and One of the “Crimes of the Century”
The Great Gatsby was published on April 10, 1925. The reviews were lacklustre, and so were sales, failing to reach the acclaim of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s previous two novels. Then high school English teachers got their hands on it and . . . the rest is history. I’ve taught Gatsby several times, each time with…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 