Understanding The Great Gatsby: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

by MaryJean Gross and Dalton Gross

Today, more than 70 years after its publication, The Great Gatsby seems as fresh and pertinent to American life as it did in the 1920s. The social, cultural, and historical milieu of the 1920s reflected in its pages is not so very different from our own. This interdisciplinary collection of commentary and rich collateral materials will enrich the reader's understanding of those times and their influence on Fitzgerald's novel. The authors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313300976
• ISBN13: 9780313300974
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"