The Great Gatsby (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. Jazz Age longing and American Dream disillusion: East/West Egg, the green light, valley of ashes - told by an unreliable Midwestern witness.By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Length3h 22m
About this audiobook
In The Great Gatsby (Unabridged), F. Scott Fitzgerald filters the rise and unraveling of Jay Gatsby through Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner adrift among East and West Egg's brittle splendors. Set in the summer of 1922, the novel deploys a modernist economy of scene and symbol—the green light, the valley of ashes, the watchful billboard—within lyrical prose that shifts from satire to elegy. Its taut design and ironic focalization expose class performance, obsessive desire, and the American Dream recast as spectacle. Fitzgerald, a Midwesterner educated at Princeton who tasted swift fame with This Side of Paradise, wrote Gatsby after seasons among Long Island's nouveaux riches and Manhattan speakeasies, where conspicuous consumption masked private precarity. His marriage to Zelda Sayre, brief work in New York advertising, and acute sensitivity to status attuned him to the intoxicants and corrosions of the Jazz Age; painstaking revisions yielded a style equal to both glitter and moral x‑ray. Unabridged, this edition preserves the novel's cadences and design, making it essential for readers seeking a lucid study of longing, privilege, and reinvention. Students, modernist enthusiasts, and curious newcomers alike will find a brief book that dazzles and disturbs.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
6The Great Gatsby (Unabridged) (pt. 1)
2Introduction
7The Great Gatsby (Unabridged) (pt. 2)
3Synopsis
8Analysis
4Historical Context
9Reflection
5Author Biography
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