The Great Gatsby

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by Joe Phoenix

The Great Gatsby, a work that seriously examines the theme of aspiration in an American setting, defines the classic American novel.
The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, and by parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.
Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
The story is of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
• Release date: Jun 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9780880004473

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, the quintessential tale of the decadence and overindulgence of the Jazz Age. Born into an upper middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised in New York. After dropping out of Princeton University in 1917 to join the Army, he was stationed in Alabama, where he met wealthy socialite Zelda Sayre. It was only after he achieved moderate success with his debut novel This Side of Paradise that Zelda agreed to marry him. His second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, propelled him to literary stardom, the volatile nature of which inspired his best-known work The Great Gatsby. Though it met with mixed reviews in Fitzgerald’s lifetime, The Great Gatsby is now considered by some literary scholars to be the “Great American Novel.” Haunted by alcoholism, declining popularity, and financial difficulties well into the 1930s, Fitzgerald died in 1940. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously in 1941. 

Reviews for The Great Gatsby

[Kristoffer Newsom · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Poorly narrated, couldn’t get through it. The exquisite prose and rhythm of Fitzgerald, murdered callously by poor cadence and awkward Pronunciation. Sorry to the gentleman who read it, but I’m afraid that’s my honest opinion.

[Alix · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The narration is extremely awkward, like a computer learning how to read. He pauses at unnatural points in sentences and pronounces words robotically, as though each is read in a vacuum, and not as part of a sentence. I could not finish the book listening to this.