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The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

The novel was inspired by a romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's cover art greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated aspects of it into the novel.

Public Domain (P)2021 Hexagon Tech Classics World Literature
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I had to abandon this book as I could not stand the narrator. His British accent was totally jarring for this seminal American novel. On the occasions he tried to do an American accent it was even worse. I tried to rerun the Audiobook but failed to find a way to do so. A wonderful and favourite book totally ruined and massacred. I wish Audible would make it easier/clearer on how to return/cancel disappointing books.

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