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 th
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Around 1925
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)