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The Great Gatsby
- Author
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrator
- James Midwood
- Publisher
- Stream Readers
- Publish Date
- 10 July 2026
- Run Time
- 4 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrator
- James Midwood
- Duration
- 4 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9780615557069
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Stream Readers
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
The Great Gatsby is a classic novel of ambition, illusion, wealth, longing, and disillusionment in the glittering world of the Jazz Age. The story follows Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire known for his extravagant parties, and his obsessive dream of reclaiming a lost love. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the novel reveals a society dazzled by money, status, beauty, and pleasure, while quietly exposing the emptiness and moral decay beneath its surface. More than a portrait of the 1920s, The Great Gatsby is a timeless meditation on desire, reinvention, memory, class, and the fragile promises of the American Dream. Elegant, tragic, and emotionally precise, this audiobook invites listeners into a world of champagne, mansions, secrecy, romance, and inevitable loss. A powerful classic for listeners interested in American literature, literary fiction, tragic romance, social criticism, and stories about the price of chasing an impossible dream.
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