The Great Gatsby CD

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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess is as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924 "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely read translated admired imitated and studied twentieth-century works of American fiction. This deceptively simple work Fitzgeralds best known was hailed by critics as capturing the spirit of the generation. In Jay Gatsby Fitzgerald embodies some of Americas strongest obsessions: wealth power greed and the promise of new beginnings. The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor Maxwell Perkins his agent Harold Ober and friends and associates including Willa Cather H.L. Mencken John Peale Bishop and Gertrude Stein. Performed by Tim Robbins