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Literary places in Long Island

6 places from Long Island, taken from the novels that put them there. Every one is anchored to a verbatim line from the text.

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1925
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The summer of 1922 on the North Shore of Long Island and in Manhattan. West Egg and East Egg are Fitzgerald's names for the real Great Neck (Kings Point) and Sands Point peninsulas, facing each other across Manhasset Bay. The valley of ashes is the Corona ash dumps in Queens, passed on the road and railway into the city under the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The Plaza is the Plaza.
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