The great Gatsby

Resource Information

The work The great Gatsby represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

The great Gatsby

Statement of responsibility

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Creator

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

Contributor

• hoopla digital
• Theis, Kevin,

Author

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

Subject

• Gatsby, Jay, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Long Island (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Love stories
• Man-woman relationships -- New York (State) | Long Island -- Fiction
• Mistresses -- Fiction
• Revenge -- Fiction
• Rich people -- Fiction
• Traffic accidents -- Fiction
• Upper class -- New York (State) | Long Island -- Fiction
• Buchanan, Daisy, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• First loves -- Fiction

Genre

• Love stories
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Often described as the Great American Novel, "The Great Gatsby" - F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece of the Jazz Age - has become one of the most beloved and revered books of the 20th Century. Narrated by the enigmatic Nick Carraway, the story takes place in the well-to-do section of Long Island, New York, where socialites and millionaires cavort about on their yachts and hydroplanes, oblivious to the day-to-day drudgery of the working class drones they motor past each day. Nick, renting a small cottage for the summer, is drawn into the social circle of his next-door neighbor, the handsome and mysterious Jay Gatsby. As he grows closer to Gatsby, Nick comes to learn that the reclusive young millionaire is pining for, and hoping to reclaim, his old flame Daisy Buchanan, who lives directly across the bay with her abrasive and unfaithful husband Tom. Set amid wild, Jazz Age parties, flowing champagne, speedy sports cars and dark, hidden secrets, "The Great Gatsby" has earned a well-deserved place in the canon of American literature. At once a celebration of the free-spirited and brightly-lit era of the Roaring Twenties and a penetrating examination of the heartlessness of its inhabitants, "Gatsby" is one of the most well-read and analyzed novels in history and the subject of numerous adaptations for the stage and screen

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

813/.52

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

PerformerNote

Read by Kevin Theis

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable