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The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel". And it is regarded by many critics as one of the finest twentieth-century American novels. T.S. Eliot called it “the first step the American novel has taken since Henry James.”. However the immediate response to the novel was overwhelmingly negative. When it’s published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel". In 1998 the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period.