When F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel THE GREAT GATSBY was published in 1925, it was generally considered to be a weaker effort than his earlier works This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. It wasn’t until distribution among American GIs during WWII that the novel gained widespread popularity and began to garner the reputation it holds to this day as a classic of American literature.
Frances Mayli McCann & Amber Davies in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum. (c) Johan Persson.