Studying The Great Gatsby The Comple..., F. Scott Fitzgerald
Studying The Great Gatsby The Comple..., F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Studying The Great Gatsby: The Complete Text and Revision Guide

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Roy McMillan, Adam Sims

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 08/13/2020

Synopsis

Plug in and prepare for your A-Level English Literature examination with this comprehensive audio study guide to The Great Gatsby. Includes the entire, unabridged audio narration of The Great Gatsby, as well as in-depth analysis on the text, covering the key areas of: Characters, Themes, Structure and Form, Genre and Historical Context - as well as detailed chapter summaries and key quotations for your exam.This audio study guide covers the core assessment objectives of the A Level syllabus. This will give students studying these texts a strong foundation from which they can build their understanding, engage with other critical commentary and draw connections to other literary texts. Students will learn how to:- articulate informed and creative responses to the text through the exploration of themes and key ideas (AO1)

- analyse writers' craft to uncover the ways in which writers convey meaning in the text (AO2)

- appreciate the influence and significance of the contexts which shaped the writing and reception of the text (AO3)

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on September 16, 2021

This is a good book, though it is so ridiculously overrated. There are so many great books out there that will never get the attention they deserve. They will be forgotten and their wisdom heard by only a select few who are willing to go looking for it. So it annoys me when books like this are accla......more

Goodreads review by Alex on March 10, 2008

The Great Gatsby is your neighbor you're best friends with until you find out he's a drug dealer. It charms you with some of the most elegant English prose ever published, making it difficult to discuss the novel without the urge to stammer awestruck about its beauty. It would be evidence enough to......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on April 14, 2025

Fitzgerald, you have ruined me. Fitzgerald can set a scene so perfectly, flawlessly. He paints a world of magic and introduces one of the greatest characters of all time, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is the embodiment of hope, and no one can dissuade him from his dreams. Have you ever had a dream that carried......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on May 25, 2010

Jay Gatsby, you poor doomed bastard. You were ahead of your time. If you would have pulled your scam after the invention of reality TV, you would have been a huge star on a show like The Bachelor and a dozen shameless Daisy-types would have thrown themselves at you. Mass media and modern fame would......more

Goodreads review by emma on April 11, 2025

once upon a time, i had a very long, very passionate review of this book uploaded, with very long, very passionate pages of comments, and generally it was one of my favorite reviews (and of one of my favorite books) with one of my favorite ensuing discussions. today i realized goodreads deleted it! re......more

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