AdvertisementHow 'Gatsby' Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American NovelSeptember 08, 2014facebookEmailA first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was displayed at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in 2013. Book critic Maureen Corrigan — who calls the cover "striking" — says she likes to think that if it landed on her porch today among the more than 200 books she receives a week, she would read it. (Getty Images)