The front dust jacket art of The Great Gatsby with title against a dark sky. Beneath the title are lips and two eyes, looming over a city.

The Great Gatsby was published on this day in 1925.

It’s about the lie of the American Dream.
Fitzgerald was a drunk, an abuser, a snob, a literary genius.
All four show up in the book.

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