英美文学精粹赏析-Selected Readings in English and American Literature Chpt.VIII.ppt

III. Main Works This Side of Paradise (1920) The Beautiful and Damned (1922) Tales of the Age(1922) The Great Gatsby (1925) Tender is the Night (1934) The Last of Tycoon (unfinished) IV. Selected Readings The Great Gatsby It is arguably Fitzgeralds finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the authors generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgeralds--and his countrys--