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by: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780060098919
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 0060098910
Label: Caedmon
Manufacturer: Caedmon
Number Of Items: 6
Number Of Pages: 7
Publication Date: October 01, 2002
Publisher: Caedmon
Release Date: October 01, 2002
Sales Rank: 86883
Studio: Caedmon
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Product Description:
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
Customer Reviews
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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. Tim Robbins' rendition is simply terrible. Each character other than the narrator, Nick Carraway, is a caricature as might be performed by a high school drama class or perhaps John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner in a spoof of the novel. Find another audio version or read the book ... 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 a few times since then.. I even used Monarch/Cliff notes with this book -- for its intended purpose, and not just to get enough information, so I can pass a test... So the book is great, but you should all know that by now..
Tim Robbins' narration is for the most part, beautifully done... ... 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 his insecurity and need for public adoration of this work.
I would suggest this as "required" listening for all high school and above students and human beings. I feel, that if we all read, or listened, to "the Great Gatsby", we would see what true good story telling is, and maybe about half ... 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, he writes about characters who are so far from who I am and I care about that I wonder if I will ever really like his novels. I have read "This side of paradise" before listening to this one, and found it equally uninteresting. Almost everyone seems to be an obnoxious and spoiled character. There is ... Read More
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