The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated and studied twentieth-century works of American fiction.
This deceptively simple work, Fitzgerald's best known, was hailed by critics as capturing the spirit of the generation. In Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald embodies some of America's strongest obsessions: wealth, power, greed, and the promise of new beginnings.
The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, his agent, Harold Ober, and friends and associates, including Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, John Peale Bishop and Gertrude Stein.
Performed by Tim Robbins
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Rating: - The Great Gatsby as performed by the cast of SNL
It had been 40 years since I had read the Great Gatsby and I had an 8 hour drive, so I took this edition out of the library. If anything can make an 8 hour drive seem even more interminable, this is it. ... Read More
Rating: - Great narration overall, but some pretty bad spots...
Ok, first off, The Great Gatsby is a great book that somehow reached me back in high school when I loved it even though I was forced to read it... That is indeed a rarity, and is why I've read it quite ... Read More
Rating: - Enchanting....
This is a wonderful reading of the Great AMerican Novella...."The Great Gatsby" , includes exerts from F.Scotts correspondence with potential publishers and friends...reveals his enormous ego, as well as ... Read More
Rating: - received damaged
received damaged and returned. amazon did not have another copy to send. the $5.00 creidit was mostly offset by my being sharged for shipping. a very unsatisfactory experience
Rating: - Very poor audio rendition
I have listened to only a few tracks of this book-on-CD, and maybe I should wait for a while before posting a review, but here is what I can already say. First, while Scott Fitzgerald is clearly a great writer, ... Read More
- The Great Gatsby as performed by the cast of SNL
- Great narration overall, but some pretty bad spots...
- Enchanting....
- Very poor audio rendition