Catalog / The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nick Carraway watches Jay Gatsby's rise and obsession in prosperous 1920s America. The novel dissects wealth, desire, and social illusion.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0743273567
- ISBN-13
- 9780743273565
- ASIN
- 0743273567
Why was The Great Gatsby challenged?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1987. The novel was challenged at a South Carolina institution for its language and sexual references.
The catalog records the scope as university. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was The Great Gatsby banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · University
The novel was challenged at a South Carolina institution for its language and sexual references.
Local challenge documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is The Great Gatsby banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1987. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was The Great Gatsby challenged?
- The novel was challenged at a South Carolina institution for its language and sexual references.
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