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I was looking at some TOP 100 novels lists (for example, TIME's TOP 100 of ALL TIME and Modern Library's top 100 by ML Board and TOP 100 by readers).
In all three cases, THE GREAT GATSBY made the list, and in many lists it made the top ten (on one list it was #1). I found this ironic, not because I don't love the book--I do, and I'm lucky enough to teach it almost every year--but because Fitzgerald never got to know that his book would achieve this sort of fame. I know it was a big hit in his youth, but I think by the time he died the book was seen as out of fashion and a sort of flash-in-the-pan of the jazz age.
Just curious--would you put Gatsby in your top ten?
Julia
In all three cases, THE GREAT GATSBY made the list, and in many lists it made the top ten (on one list it was #1). I found this ironic, not because I don't love the book--I do, and I'm lucky enough to teach it almost every year--but because Fitzgerald never got to know that his book would achieve this sort of fame. I know it was a big hit in his youth, but I think by the time he died the book was seen as out of fashion and a sort of flash-in-the-pan of the jazz age.
Just curious--would you put Gatsby in your top ten?
Julia