It is exactly one hundred years since F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. It received generally positive reviews, but some critics felt it compared unfavourably with his previous novels This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922), and it was not a great commercial success. In fact, when Fitzgerald died in 1940 he believed himself to be a failure and that his work would soon be forgotten. However, during World War II the Council on...