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Gatsby's Oxford : Scott, Zelda and the Jazz Age invasion of Britain: 1904-1929

Gatsby's Oxford : Scott, Zelda and the Jazz Age invasion of Britain: 1904-1929

Book 2019

The poet T.S. Eliot. The polo star Tommy Hitchcock. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. This diverse group of Americans came to Oxford in the first quarter of the twentieth century--the Jazz Age--when the Rhodes Scholar program had just begun and the Great War had enveloped much of Europe. Scott Fitzgerald created his most memorable character--Jay Gatsby, the Oxford man in the pink suit--shortly after his and Zelda's visit to Oxford. Fitzgerald's...