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Published: 20 May 2012
ISBN: 9781445847474
Imprint: BBC DL
Format: Audio Download
Length: 1 hr 53 min

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The Great Gatsby

Name: The Great Gatsby
ISBN: 9781445847474

And Stories from All the Sad Young Men (Centennial Edition)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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For the centennial of its publication, a new edition of one of the most iconic of American novels, including four of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories about wealth and class from his collection All the Sad Young Men and an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

A Penguin Classic

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, starring Bryan Dick as Nick and Andrew Scott as Jay Gatsby. The greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream, The Great Gatsby, a portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, is by far the most popular classic in modern American fiction. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's - and his country's - most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed and the promise of new beginnings. Gatsby is the man who has everything - but one thing will always be out of his reach... The Great Gatsby has been adapted as a major motion picture, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.

Published: 20 May 2012
ISBN: 9781445847474
Imprint: BBC DL
Format: Audio Download
Length: 1 hr 53 min

Categories:

Film, TV & radio

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About the author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was considered the quintessential author of the Jazz Age. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, Fitzgerald attended Princeton University, where he began to write seriously. After joining the U.S. Army in 1917, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, whom he later married. In 1920, Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, transformed Fitzgerald overnight into a literary sensation. The Great Gatsby followed in 1925, although it was not as popular at the time as his second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned. Fitzgerald died in 1940 of a heart attack. He was forty-four years old.