About this audiobook
"The Great Gatsby" by Francis Scott Fitzgerald is a brilliant masterpiece of world literature, which has become a manifesto and the main mirror of the "Jazz Age."This is a elegant, fascinating and at the same time deeply tragic story of unlimited love, blind wealth, broken illusions and the reverse, cruel side of the "American Dream." The story is led by Nick Carway, a modest young man who rents a small house in the prestigious suburb of New York, on Long Island. His neighbor is the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, a man without a past, organizing in his luxurious castle the most crazy, stylish and multi-human parties that the whole higher world gathers. No one knows where Gatsby has such a huge money, but soon Nick reveals his main secret. It seems that all this brightness, luxury and flames are arranged with only one purpose: to attract the attention of Daisy Buckene, Nick's cousin and the old, only love of Gatsby, who once married the brutal but basically rich Tom Buckene. In order to turn the time back and return the loved one, Jay is ready to throw the whole world to her legs. But behind the facade of the perfect celebration of the heroes already awaits a fatal catastrophe. Fitzgerald managed to create an amazingly atmospheric, cinematographic novel, where behind the light jazz music, the bridges of champagne and the glow of diamonds is hidden a stunning emptiness and the egoism of the higher society. Jay Gatsby, with his great, pure and naive belief in the green flame of hope on the shadow, forever remained in literature one of the most romantic, tragic and truly great heroes. ** About what the book in three words:** Dream, Jazz, Illusion. To all the lovers of perfect, elegant slogans, stories of rock and beautiful love, as well as those who want to get into the atmosphere of the crazy American 1920s and see how easily even the greatest dreams break down.
