The Reverend Mr.Dimmesdale fights the demons within.
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What secret lies in the heart of Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale? What evil lurks in the the heart of old Roger Chillingworth?
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Old Roger Chillingworth, the physician and the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale take up abode together.
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The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, the story is set in New York City and Long Island during the summer of 1922.
The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and encouraged organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamour of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and lack of morality that went with it.
The Great Gatsby was not popular upon initial printing and sold fewer than 25,000 copies during the remaining fifteen years of Fitzgerald's life.
Although it was adapted into both a Broadway play and a Hollywood film within a year of publication, it was largely forgotten during the Great Depression and World War II. After it was republished in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership, and is now often regarded as the Great American Novel. It is now a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world.
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The Reverend Mr.Dimmesdale fights the demons within.
Illustration: The Virgins of the Church from chapter entitled "The Interior of a Heart" -- the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Illustration drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and engraved by A.V.S. Anthony.
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What secret lies in the heart of Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale? What evil lurks in the the heart of old Roger Chillingworth?
Illustration:"The Leech and his Patient" from the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Illustration drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and engraved by A.V.S. Anthony. Courtesy of hawthorneinsalem.org.
Old Roger Chillingworth, the physician and the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale take up abode together.
Illustration: The Minister and Leech from chapter entitled "The Leech" -- the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Illustration drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and engraved by A.V.S. Anthony. 
The Great Gatsby
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