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Category Archives: Classics and/or Literature
(Love of) The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (this ed. 1995, orig. 1940)
Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s penultimate novel, “Tender is the Night,” saddened me, because it showed a once-great man struggling—and failing—to write a novel worthy of his prodigious talent and storied past. Reading “The Last Tycoon” saddens me, because he found … Continue reading
Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1933)
Reading “Tender Is the Night” is like watching clips of Babe Ruth’s last season: his body decrepit, his spirit broken, Babe was just trying to force greatness where there wasn’t any left in the tank. He kept falling down. He … Continue reading
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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The Great Gatsby” stands as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, written as his gifts reached their acme, and before his life began its inexorable spiral into alcoholism. Many … Continue reading
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An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde (1895)
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