The Great Gatsby

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Brown Bagging It
at the Movies

April 26 – 30
Capitol View Room
State Library of Louisiana
701 N 4th St

Watch a portion of the movie each day Monday - Thursday between 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

Conclude with a discussion on Friday.

Bring a brown bag lunch!
Bottled water and soft drinks will be available.
 



Additional Resources

Fitzgerald's Books Published during His Lifetime
This Side of Paradise, 1920.
Flappers and Philosophers, 1920.
The Beautiful and the Damned, 1922.
Tales of the Jazz Age, 1922.
The Vegetable, 1923.
The Great Gatsby, 1925.
All the Sad Young Men, 1926.
Tender is the Night, 1934.
Taps at Reveille, 1935.
Fitzgerald's only publisher during his lifetime was Charles Scribner's Sons.

Posthumously Published
The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western. New York: Scribner, 1941. (Originally published under editor Edmund Wilson's title, The Last Tycoon.)
The Crack-Up. Ed. Edmund Wilson. New York: New Directions, 1945.

Other Works about Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
Bruccoli, Matthew J. Some Epic Sort of Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. rev. ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
Cowley, Malcolm. Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. New York: Norton, 1934. Rev. ed. New York: Viking, 1951.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ed. Andrew Turnbull. New York: Scribner, 1971.
—.The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark, 1978.
Graham, Sheilah. College of One. New York: Viking, 1967.
Milford, Nancy. Zelda. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Ring, Frances Kroll. Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald. San Francisco: Ellis/Creative Arts, 1985.

Web Sites
www.sc.edu/fitzgerald
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Web site celebrates his writings, his life, and his relationship with other twentieth-century writers.
www.fitzgeraldsociety.org
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society: An affiliate of the American Literature Association, this international society publishes the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Newsletter and holds conferences.

 

 

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