Gatsby's parties might have been fictional, but they had very real inspiration. Fitzgerald based East and West Egg on Long Island's Gold Coast, where mansions still line the water.

It started to gain success only in the 1940s, after it was reissued, before finally being recognised as one of the greatest US novels. The Great Gatsby - 2013. Pic: REX F. Scott Fitzgerald drew on his ...

Long Island's Gold Coast still shines — albeit in a more subdued manner than when "The Great Gatsby" was published 100 years ago. The novel, which is celebrating its centennial this week, is set ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s enigmatic millionaire has just turned 100. In honor of the milestone, here is our guide to having a grand old Gatsbyesque time on the Gold Coast—minus the tragedy, of course.

This is the town Fitzgerald once called home that inspired Jay Gatsby’s new-monied playground, West Egg, located across the glittering waters of Long Island Sound from Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s ...

As ‘The Great Gatsby’ turns 100, Ellie Seymour travelled east from Manhattan to the Hamptons – discovering the places that inspired the great American novel ...

The Art Deco tapestries seen in Gatsby’s “great white palace” appeared on designs from Ossie Clarke and Celia Birtwell; the iconic ‘70s Biba logo was an Art Deco motif, too.

Celebrating its centenary on April 10 2025, The Great Gatsby endures as the defining portrait of Jazz Age extravagance and glamour — a shimmering vision of energy, affluence and possibility.

A hundred years after The Great Gatsby shone a light on extravagant Long Island mansions and secret speakeasies, the spirit of the Roaring Twenties is returning to New York.

More than 14 large landscapes and small-scale portraits reconstruct the Gatsby era of the 1920s at West Egg and East Egg, today’s Great Neck Bay and Manhasset Bay, respectively.

The story follows mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, who throws wild, hedonistic parties at his Long Island home, but really only pines for one thing — a reunion with his former flame Daisy Buchanan.