The Great Gatsby full audiobook with rolling text by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway s interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby s obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, and by parties he attended on Long Island s North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. After submitting to editor Maxwell Perkins, Fitzgerald was persuaded by Perkins to revise the work over the following winter. Fitzgerald was ambivalent about the book s title and considered a variety of alternatives. The final title that he was documented to have desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. After its publication by Scribner s in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews from literary critics and sold poorly. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a fail