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Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Audio book performed by Alexander Scourby - Unabridged Fiction - 3 CASSETTES - 4.5 hours

Publisher, Audio Partners (1990)

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The novel that epitomizes the glamour and recklessness, promise and despair of the Jazz Age. Scourby's reading is magnificent.

Jay Gatsby is a man with the ability to dream big dreams. And yet the pettiness and cruelty of society act to corrupt everything Gatsby is faced with and what he believes in. The story is filled with romance and suspense, and is one of the essential great American classics.

About the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920 and it was an immediate hit. The Great Gatsby is considered his best (and best-known) work. It has been assigned reading in American high schools and colleges continuously since its publication.

About the Performer: Alexander Scourby (1913-1985) was the narrator of many television specials and recorded more than five hundred audiobooks, including the Bible. The American Foundation for the Blind established the Alexander Scourby Narrator of the Year Awards in 1986 in memory of their most popular audiobook narrator.