![]() ![]() Though The Great Gatsby runs to fewer than two hundred pages, there is no bigger read in American literature. The story of Jay Gatsby's desperate quest to win back his first love reverberates with themes at once characteristically American and universally human, among them the importance of honesty, the temptations of wealth, and the struggle to escape the past. ![]() ![]() Since its publication in 1925, Fitzgerald's masterpiece has become a touchstone for generations of readers and writers, many of whom reread it every few years as a ritual of imaginative renewal. If you're interested in the timeless classic, The Great Gatsby it is conveniently offered in audiobook on MP3 download.The Great Gatsby may be the most popular classic in modern American fiction. The author's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned is also available as an audio download. If you love short stories, try Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales, which is available as a download. In the author's later years, he worked in Hollywood producing commercial short stories and his final novel, The Last Tycoon, wasn't published until after his death at the age of 44. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is believed by many to be based on his marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's only commercial success came from This Side of Paradise, his first novel. However, it wasn't until after the author's death in 1940 that The Great Gatsby was recognized as one of the great American novels. It was during that time, also known as the Jazz Age, that Fitzgerald produced his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. In the 1920s, Fitzgerald traveled to Europe where he established a close friendship with fellow writer Ernest Hemingway. The writer was born to an upper middle class American family on September 24, 1896. Scott Fitzgerald, who is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, is the author of many novels and short stories. ![]()
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