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Historical RomanceHistorical FictionClassic Love Stories

The Great Gatsby

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  • 1920 first published
  • 185 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (252 ratings)
  • 1,180 editions
  • 🎧 5 h 45 min free audiobook
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1920) is a historical romance and historical fiction novel. The story is set in Long Island and New York, in 1922. It features Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Key subjects include married people, Psychological, rich people and mistresses.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 252 ratings, and 2,641 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 1,180 editions across 16 languages.

At about 185 pages, most readers finish it in 3–4 hours. A free LibriVox audiobook (5 h 45 min) is available.

About The Great Gatsby

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. \--first edition jacket
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Free audiobook

The Great Gatsby — LibriVox recording, 5 h 45 min in 10 sections.

Public-domain recording by volunteer readers. Listen online, download MP3s or stream from the Internet Archive.

Opening line

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Setting

Era

Characters

  • Nick Carraway
  • Jay Gatsby
  • Daisy Buchanan
  • Tom Buchanan
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Subjects

  • Married people
  • American fiction, Fictional works by one author
  • Psychological
  • Long island, N.y.
  • Rich people
  • Mistresses
  • Married women
  • Traffic accidents
  • First loves
  • Revenge
  • American Manuscripts
  • Facsimiles
  • Manuscripts
  • Antiheroes, l fiction
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Upper class

Quick answers

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in 1920.

What genre is The Great Gatsby?

It is usually shelved as Historical Romance, Historical Fiction and Classic Love Stories.

How long is The Great Gatsby?

The median edition has 185 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

Is there a free audiobook of The Great Gatsby?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 5 h 45 min.

What books are similar to The Great Gatsby?

Readers who like it often enjoy Jacob's Folly, The Traitor God and The Name of the Wind.

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