"In general, Eble's estimate of Fitzgerald's work seems to me just, even his suggestion that The Great Gatsby may be the greatest novel between Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye."
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Stanley Edgar Hyman
Stanley Edgar Hyman (June 11, 1919 - July 29, 1970) was an American literary critic, jazz critic, staff writer for The New Yorker, and teacher at Bennington College in Vermont.
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