--- title: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald: Read TIME's Original Review description: The book came out exactly 90 years ago canonical: https://time.com/3765539/1925-review-great-gatsby/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-10T10:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:35:09.321Z article:section: History og:title: Read TIME's Original Review of 'The Great Gatsby' og:description: The book came out exactly 90 years ago og:url: https://time.com/3765539/1925-review-great-gatsby/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca2a6dc3b290bae6/6987ea883c16391de84556e7/great-gatsby.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read TIME's Original Review of 'The Great Gatsby' twitter:description: The book came out exactly 90 years ago twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca2a6dc3b290bae6/6987ea883c16391de84556e7/great-gatsby.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read TIME's Original Review of _The Great Gatsby_ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 10, 2015 10:00 AM UTC  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 10, 2015 10:00 AM UTC The main book review in the[ May 11, 1925, issue of TIME](http://time.com/vault/issue/1925-05-11/page/16/) earned several columns of text, with an in-depth analysis of the book’s significance and the author’s background. But, nearly a century later, you’ve probably never heard of _Mr. Tasker’s Gods_, by T.F. Powys, much less read it. Meanwhile, another book reviewed in the issue, earning a single paragraph relegated to the second page of the section, has gone down in history as one of the most important works in American literature — and, to many, _the_ great American novel. It was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s _The Great Gatsby_, published exactly 90 years ago, on April 10, 1925. TIME’s original review, though noting Fitzgerald’s talent, gave little hint of the fame waiting for the book: --- > “” --- But not everyone had trouble seeing the future: in [a 1933 cover story ](http://time.com/vault/issue/1933-09-11/page/63/)about Gertrude Stein, the intellectual icon offered her prognostications on the literature of her time. F. Scott Fitzgerald, she told TIME, “will be read when many of his well known contemporaries are forgotten.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3765539/1925-review-great-gatsby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3765539/1925-review-great-gatsby/"},"headline":"Read TIME's Original Review of The Great Gatsby","datePublished":"2015-04-10T10:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:35:09.321Z","description":"The book came out exactly 90 years ago","url":"https://time.com/3765539/1925-review-great-gatsby/","keywords":["Books","review","Literature"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca2a6dc3b290bae6/6987ea883c16391de84556e7/great-gatsby.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca2a6dc3b290bae6/6987ea883c16391de84556e7/great-gatsby.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald","caption":"The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3765539/1925-review-great-gatsby/","name":"Read TIME's Original Review of The Great Gatsby"}}]}] ```