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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer 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 Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
The novel is referred to in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator, reads a chapter after becoming inebriated and claims that "either it was terrible stuff or the whisky distorted things, because it didn't make any sense to me."
LibriVox is an invented word inspired by Latin words liber (book) in its genitive form libri and vox (voice), giving the meaning BookVoice (or voice of the book). The word was also coined because of other connotations: liber also means child and free, independent, unrestricted .
In the Fitzgerald canon, scholars consider the story to be in the "Gatsby-cluster" as the author expanded on many of its themes in his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. [2] Writing his editor Max Perkins in June 1925, Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as a "first draft of the Gatsby idea."
The Great Gatsby (1926), play based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name. The play was adapted for the 1949 motion picture of the same name. Just to Remind You (1931), play which premiered at Lakewood Theatre in Maine, with Humphrey Bogart in lead; The Good Earth (1932), dramatization of the Pearl S. Buck novel of the same name.
The Great Gatsby is a 2023 stage musical with music and lyrics by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen, and a book by Kait Kerrigan. It is based on the 1925 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The show started its Broadway previews on March 29, 2024, at the Broadway Theatre and officially opened on April 25, 2024. [1] [2] [3]