The Great Gatsby

Synopsis

listen In To Christopher Reeve's Masterful Performance In His Reading Of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Exemplary Novel Of The Jazz Age.

The Story Fo The Fabulously Wealthy Jay Gatsby And His Love For The Beautiful Daisy Buchanan, Of Lavish Parties In West Egg, Long Island, At A Time When, The New York Times Remarked, Gin Was The National Drink And Sex The National Obsession. It Is An Exquisitely Crafted Tale Of America In The 1920s That Resonates With The Power Of Myth.

edwin C. Clark

. . . It Expresses One Phase Of The Great Grotesque Spectacle Of Our American Scene. It Is Humor, Irony, Ribaldry, Pathos And Loveliness. . . . A Curious Book, A Mystical, Glamorous Story Of Today. It Takes A Deeper Cut At Life Than Hitherto Has Been Essayed By Mr. Fitzgerald. He Writes Well -- He Always Has -- For He Writes Naturally, And His Sense Of Form Is Becoming Perfected. -- books Of The Century; New York Times Review, April 1925