The Great Gatsby

Written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by Kendrick Houston

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids.

Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success, but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had, by Fitzgerald's time, become increasingly focused on money and pleasure — a phenomenon with which the high-living writer was all too familiar.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Re-Image Publishing
• Release date: Feb 22, 2019

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, 1896-Hollywood, 1940) es considerado uno de los más importantes escritores estadounidenses del siglo XX y el portavoz de la generación perdida. El gran Gatsby se publicó por primera vez en 1925 y fue inmediatamente celebrada como una obra maestra por autores como T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein o Edith Wharton.

Reviews for The Great Gatsby

[Alyssa Mohamad · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Computer narrator. Would suggest using a version that is read by a human with natural inflections.

[Britney Johnson · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Robot voice. Final another version to listen too. It sounds awful

[Ali · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I can't listen to this narration. I want to listen to a book not a National Weather Service announcement

[Arabell Walter · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This audiobooks is so monotonous I can't continue. Such a shame as I was really looking forward to listen to this classic

[Nayef · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Computer generated reading sounds awful. Very uncanny valley. I dont recommend this version.

[Sharky Liu · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Computer generated reading, sounds weird. Don't waste your time. Find one wihr a real person reading it.

[Natalie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Throughout this novel, we are to consider color, rightfully so. In the very beginning we are confronted with a view of skin color as base as it is fearful. The color of skin, the color of grass, the color of automobiles. Perhaps silver: a color drained of ambition and purpose: the literal silver-spoon-borne-illness that welcomes the Daisy(s) and Toms of this world describes a lack of depth and consequence.

[Jennifer Davis · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Great book, HORRIBLE narrator. I could barely listen to this trash. Is the narrator a computer?

[Rampage · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is the version of the American classic that i recommend, either in hardcover or paperback. Reportedly, the artwork was commissioned before the novel was published, and Fitzgerald was so impressed that he wrote the cover into the story. This classic tale of rags to riches still entertains and informs, although it was written 90 years ago, in 1925.

[McGrath · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald is a book that will forever remain part of who you are. This book is not about glamour, or riches — it's about a soul in pain, about a goal unmet, about dreams and love that is wrongly directed. It's about being human. About understanding and accepting (unlike Gatsby) what is within and what is beyond our control. The beautiful and terrible illusions of the human mind. Read it!

[WINFRED · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

When I first read this book, I wasn't the least bit sympathetic toward Daisy. Now, almost thirty years later, I do have some sympathy, but it is limited. When I first read this book, I didn't even really think about the child, much like Gatsby doesn't. Now, when I have a child, I kept wondering what happened to her. And that, I think, is the genius of this book and Fitzgerald's writing.

[Gorge Harrison · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The Great Gatsby IS about the Jazz Age. There is strong symbolism in this book -- the green light. And there is quite a bit of foreshadowing (and foreboding) in this book -- "the all-seeing eyes". But there is also layer upon layer of wonderful in this book.

[Jacqueline Miller · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is one of my favorite novels. I've both read and taught it in my college lit courses a number of times.

[Sophie Ava · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I only encountered “The Great Gatsby” as an Abridged Paperback Edition that was part of a prior English Class that my wife was taking in Brasilia. I enjoyed the book but I resolved to read the Full Version in the future. I saw this edition in a Bookbub email and at $1.99, I bought it and spent four days reading it leisurely.

[Indianara Carolina Emke · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Nothing wrong with the book, it's this computer generated voice that isn't doing this classic any favors.

[Nana · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Honestly, where to begin?
I'm so glad it was short, so, I didn't suffer for long.
It was dry and pretentious.
The narrator was nothing but a rag doll, pushed and pulled wherever whenever the story needed building. Homie got literally dragged to meet his cousin's husband's mistress, and, showed 0 emotions, but, on another occasion _I guess the story was falling apart_ lo and behold, the rag doll was capable of having feelings. Boring punk a**, b****.

I also didn't like the whole atmosphere, I guess I was suppose to say "oh la la look at all the debauchery" ?
Was I supposed to root for this mentally ill lunatic who's stalking a married woman?!
I guess if this was a thriller I would totally have a different opinion ? but, unfortunately, no, this is a story about how bitches and "hysterical" _the author's words not mine _women are. How we ruin poor poor men with our hysterical and greedy idiotic ways. ?