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"The Great Gatsby" turns 100: Initially a sales flop, now regarded as the "great American novel"

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" The Great Gatsby " celebrates its 100th anniversary on April 10, 1925 .

The book is one of the country's foremost tales of American hubris, modern yearning and class consciousness.

It tells the story of Nick Carraway , a Midwesterner (and veiled Fitzgerald stand-in) who becomes enamored with the Jazz Age lifestyle.

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