Literature

The plot of the romance (a fictional title invented by Poe himself, called 'Mad Trist') concerns a hero named Ethelred who enters the house of a hermit and slays a dragon. In a shocking development, Madeline breaks out of her coffin and enters the room, and Roderick confesses that he buried her alive.

The Great Gatsby, Third novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. Set in Jazz Age New York, it tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.