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Title details for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Available

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frank Muller
Audiobook
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No one—fictional or factual—embodies the Jazz Age as completely as F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby. First published in 1925, this legendary novel continues to enthrall generations as it serves as a lens to view our not-so-distant past. Many of our notions about that period are taken from the pages of this book.
Bathtub gin, flappers, and house parties that last all week enliven Fitzgerald's classic tale. Stylish and engaging, The Great Gatsby is also a startling literate portrait of Gatsby's search for meaning in his opulent world.

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  • Release date

    May 1, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781464047374
      • File size: 133281 KB
      • Duration: 04:37:40

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 530
    • Text Difficulty: 1-3

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Readers familiar with Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age and those who have never read it will both benefit from Frank Muller's wonderful narration. Muller brings the classic's rhythms to life, letting us hear the differences in class or regional origins in just a few words that might be missed on the silent page. What's more, the fundamental dishonesty of Gatsby's self- creation comes through in his repetition of stock phrases. Muller's delivery accents the often missed poetic qualities of Fitzgerald's prose. One can hear the rhythmic cadences in each phrase, and even how the vowels in individual descriptive passages resonate with one another. This is what an audiobook should be. G.T.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from December 2, 2002
      Audio reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version. Fiction THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Tim Robbins. Caedmon Audio, unabridged, six cassettes, 7 hrs., $27.95 ISBN 0-06-009890-2 Readers in that sizeable group of people who think The Great Gatsby
      is the Great American Novel will be delighted with Robbins's subtle, brainy and immensely touching new reading. There have been audio versions of Gatsby
      before this—by Alexander Scourby and Christopher Reeve, to name two—but actor/director Robbins brings a fresh and bracing vision that makes the story gleam. From the jaunty irony of the title page quote ("Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!") to the poetry of Fitzgerald's ending about "the dark fields of the republic" and "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," Robbins conjures up a sublime portrait of a lost world. And as a bonus, the excellent audio actor Robert Sean Leonard reads a selection of Fitzgerald's letters to editors, agents and friends which focus on the writing and selling of the novel. Listeners will revel in learning random factoids, e.g., in 1924, Scott and Zelda were living in a Rome hotel that cost just over $500 a month, and he was respectfully suggesting that his agent Harold Ober ask $15,000 from Liberty
      magazine for the serial rights to Gatsby.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 22, 2010
      Robertson Dean's rich, deep voice sweeps us into this classic with the same straightforward narrative elegance Fitzgerald gives his narrator, Nick Carraway. Dean manages to be moving without dramatic exaggeration, and to distinguish characters, male and female, without resort to stereotyping. He reifies Jay Gatsby in all his ambition and naïveté, and paints Fitzgerald's complex picture of love, power, money, and hypocrisy with simple sonority. This audio is a wonderful experience for old fans as well as first-time Fitzgerald readers, and it comes with a companion e-book.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:530
  • Text Difficulty:1-3

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