The Nice Gatsby: A Free Audio E book


April tenth will mark the a hundredth anniver­sary of F. Scott Fitzger­ald’s clas­sic Amer­i­can nov­el, The Nice Gats­by. As A.O. Scott notes in a latest trib­ute, when first pub­lished, The Nice Gats­by obtained off to a gradual begin. Ini­tial­ly, “Overview­ers shrugged. Gross sales had been slug­gish. The nov­el and its writer slid towards obscu­ri­ty.”

It was­n’t till the Nineteen Forties that Gats­by below­went a revival. Crit­ics started to re-eval­u­ate Fitzger­ald’s nov­el, and the U.S. mil­i­tary “dis­trib­uted greater than 150,000 copies of ‘Gats­by’ to Amer­i­can ser­vice­males dur­ing World Battle II,” all to assist bored sol­diers kill time. From there, Gats­by’s “cul­tur­al foot­print broaden­ed. Paper­again edi­tions professional­lif­er­at­ed, and the nov­el was name-checked by youthful authors, includ­ing J.D. Salinger.” As we speak, with some 30 mil­lion copies bought world­extensive and at the very least 5 movie adap­ta­tions to its identify, The Nice Gats­by has estab­lished itself as an endur­ing Amer­i­can clas­sic.

In Jan­u­ary 2021, The Nice Gats­by ultimate­ly entered the pub­lic area, permit­ing cre­ators to utilize the lit­er­ary work in dif­fer­ent methods. As our author Col­in Mar­shall not­ed, “Already yow will discover The Homosexual Gats­by, B.A. Baker’s slash fic­tion rein­ter­pre­ta­tion of all of the sup­pressed lengthy­ing within the orig­i­nal nov­el; The Nice Gats­by Undead, a zom­bie ver­sion; and Michael Far­ris Smith’s Nick, a pre­quel that fol­lows Nick Automobile­raway by World Battle I and out the oth­er aspect.” After which there are extra straight­for­ward tasks–like Challenge Guten­berg’s e‑e-book of the orig­i­nal textual content, or this free audio e-book ver­sion of The Nice Gats­by. This 5 hour document­ing comes cour­tesy of Nolan Hen­nel­ly, and you may stream it above.

This learn­ing will likely be added to our col­lec­tion, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Down­load Nice Books for Free.

Relat­ed Con­tent 

The Nice Gats­by Defined: How F. Scott Fitzger­ald Indict­ed & Endorsed the Amer­i­can Dream (1925)

The Nice Gats­by Is Now within the Pub­lic Area and There’s a New Graph­ic Nov­el

T. S. Eliot, Edith Whar­ton & Gertrude Stein Inform F. Scott Fitzger­ald That Gats­by is Nice, Whereas Crit­ics Known as It a Dud (1925)

83 Years of Nice Gats­by E book Cov­er Designs: A Pho­to Gallery

Haru­ki Muraka­mi Trans­lates The Nice Gats­by, the Nov­el That Influ­enced Him Most

Andy Kauf­man Reads Earnest­ly from The Nice Gats­by and Enrages His Audi­ence

The Wire Breaks Down The Nice Gats­by, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Clas­sic Crit­i­cism of Amer­i­ca (NSFW)



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