The Great Gatsby

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Cover of the first edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring a blue background with large disembodied eyes and red lips above a glowing cityscape.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby raises a champagne glass, with 'The Great Gatsby' book cover superimposed and an arrow pointing to it.

Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby stands in a suit with arms crossed, leaning against a yellow vintage car in front of a grand mansion in The Great Gatsby (1974).

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, in a tuxedo, stands at a lavish party with elegantly dressed guests in 1920s attire in a scene from The Great Gatsby (2013).

Studio portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald wearing a suit and tie, holding a lit cigarette and looking at the camera, circa 1925.

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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, in a tuxedo, stands at a lavish party with elegantly dressed guests in 1920s attire in a scene from The Great Gatsby (2013).

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novel by Fitzgerald

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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby raises a champagne glass, with 'The Great Gatsby' book cover superimposed and an arrow pointing to it.

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Cover of the first edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring a blue background with large disembodied eyes and red lips above a glowing cityscape.

The Great Gatsby

Cover of The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Its famous illustration...

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Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby stands in a suit with arms crossed, leaning against a yellow vintage car in front of a grand mansion in The Great Gatsby (1974).

Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby

Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby (1974), directed by Jack Clayton.

© 1974 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, in a tuxedo, stands at a lavish party with elegantly dressed guests in 1920s attire in a scene from The Great Gatsby (2013).

Scene from Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby

Leonardo DiCaprio (left) as Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan (center) as Daisy Buchanan...

© 2013 Warner Brothers

Studio portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald wearing a suit and tie, holding a lit cigarette and looking at the camera, circa 1925.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1925

American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925....

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