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4 giorni fa · The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel. It was published in 1925. Set in Jazz Age New York, it tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
21 ore fa · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1925
2 giorni fa · Gatsby's story is the rags-to-riches American Dream. A young man from the middle of nowhere who, through his own ingenuity and resourcefulness, makes it big. But Gatsby is really alone and Fitzgerald makes clear that the American Dream is a false promise.
1 giorno fa · Among the writers who were fascinated by Hollywood in its “golden age” were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, and Nathanael West. After World War II , film studios began to move outside Hollywood, and the practice of filming “on location” emptied many of the famous lots and sound stages or turned them over to ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Hollywood is a district within the city of Los Angeles, whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. It is also called Tinseltown.
- Hollywood is in Los Angeles, California. Lying northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beve...
- Hollywood was laid out as a subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, who was a prohibitionist from Kansas. However, real-estate magnate H.J. Whitley t...
- Daeida Wilcox gave Hollywood its name. She was the wife of Harvey Wilcox, who owned the area and in 1887 submitted a subdivision map to the Los Ang...
- The iconic Hollywood sign was originally erected in 1923. However, the sign did not read “Hollywood” but “Hollywoodland”; its purpose was advertisi...
2 giorni fa · Gatsby insegue disperatamente il sogno di ritrovare Daisy, di far rivivere il legame con la donna che lo ha respinto, povero e senza prospettive, per sposare il rampollo di una delle più grandi famiglie americane.
3 giorni fa · Gregory Peck signs autographs at an American Cancer Society event in New Orleans on April 5, 1966. Of course, the event wasn’t all business. According to the excerpt in the New Orleans Saints-Item newspaper, Peck was surprised with a rendition of “Happy Birthday,” played on piano, as well as a delicious birthday cake donated by Gambino ...
3 giorni fa · Writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel), Baz Luhrmann (screenplay) THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (1999) Drama; Romance Synopsis: Homer Wells is an orphan, but he does not lack a family. Having grown up at St. Cloud’s orphanage under the unconventional but loving tutelage of Dr. Wilbur Larch, Homer never wanted for affection.
