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Course | Reading The Great Gatsby with Anne Margaret Daniel | Virtual

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  • October 21, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET

  • October 28, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET

  • November 4, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET

  • November 11, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET

  • November 18, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET

Registration

  • Tuition for this course is $250. Members receive exclusive discounts on our programs and courses. Not a member? Learn more.

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  • This program is for those 18 and older.

  • Registration opens for Delancey Society members on Friday, August 22, for Rosenbach members on Friday, August 29, and for the general public on Friday, September 5. Registration opens at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Description

Fitzgerald's third novel was published in April 1925. When Fitzgerald first began writing The Great Gatsby in the summer of 1921, he told his editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, "I want to write something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." We will learn about the genesis of The Great Gatsby, its critical reception when it appeared, its changing afterlife, the rise of its immense global popularity, and versions of Gatsby on stage and film as we read the novel together.  

Instructor

Anne Margaret Daniel teaches at the New School University in New York City and at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. Her essays on literature, music, books, baseball, and culture have appeared for the past 25 years in books, critical editions, magazines, and journals including The New York Times, Hot Press, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement. Her edition of the last complete short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, I’d Die For You And Other Lost Stories, was published by Scribner / Simon & Schuster in 2017; and her Norton Library edition of The Great Gatsby appeared in 2022. She is currently at work on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald and is co-editing with Jackson R. Bryer the letters of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She lives in Woodstock, New York.

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