2. Umm Al Qura University Faculty of Social Sciences English Department F. Scott Fitzgerald 20 th Century Novel Nadia Khawandanah Nadia Khawandanah

3. American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Minnesota and educated at Princeton. Francis Scott FITZGERALD Key (1896-1940):

4. Literary Career Nadia Khawandanah

5. Marriage to Zelda Sayre Nadia Khawandanah

6. The Jazz Age Nadia Khawandanah

7. Short Stories He published short stories in fashionable periodicals such as the Saturday Evening Post, Vanity Fair, and the Smart Set. Nadia Khawandanah

8. The Beautiful and Damned (1922) A novel about a wealthy, doomed, and dissipated marriage. Nadia Khawandanah

9. The Great Gatsby (1925) Nadia Khawandanah It is widely considered his finest work.

10. The Plot of The Great Gatsby This is the story of shady, mysterious financier Jay Gatsby's romantic and destructive passion for Daisy Buchanan, played against a backdrop of Long Island glamour and New York squalor; the story is narrated by the innocent outsider Nick Carraway, Gatsby's neighbour and Daisy's distant cousin, who observes from a distance as infidelity, hard drinking, fast driving, and finally murder take their toll, as the age of 'miracles, art and excess' turns to ashes. Nadia Khawandanah

11. Tender Is the Night (1934)  The novel depicts the story of the American psychiatrist, Dick Diver and his schizophrenic wife Nicole.  It shows Fitzgerald’s own sense of impending disaster as his wife, Zelda was suffering from mental breakdown. Nadia Khawandanah

12. The Last Tycoon (1941) Nadia Khawandanah It was published posthumously and edited by E. Wilson.

13. Resource:  Drabble, Margaret, The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 6 th edition. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Nadia Khawandanah

14. Wish You a pleasant time in 20 th Century Course & may Allah bless your times.