The Great Gatsby (In Our Time)
1925 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss F Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, published in 1925, one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It is told by Nick Carraway, neighbour and friend of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby. In the age of jazz and prohibition, Gatsby hosts lavish parties at his opulent home across the bay from Daisy Buchanan, in the hope she’ll attend one of them and they can be reunited.
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Around 1925
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)