Francis Scott Fitzgerald has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 135 ratings. The most-rated is The Witches.
The Witches
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This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma's stories - but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself!
©2007 Roald Dahl (P)2007 Penguin Audio
The Great Gatsby
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When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success, but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had, by Fitzgerald's time, become increasingly focused on money and pleasure - a phenomenon with which the high-living writer was all too familiar.
Public Domain (P)2012 Trout Lake Media
Look Me in the Eye
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Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits - an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes - had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother or his father. It was no wonder he gravitated to machines, which could, at least, be counted on. After fleeing his parents and dropping out of high school, his savant-like ability to visualize electronic circuits landed him a gig with KISS. Later, he drifted into a “real” job, as an engineer for a major toy company. But the higher Robison rose in the company, the more he had to pretend to be “normal” and do what he simply couldn’t: communicate. It was not until he was 40 that an insightful therapist told him he had the form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome. That understanding transformed the way Robison saw himself - and the world. Robison also provides a fascinating reverse angle on the younger brother he left at the mercy of their nutty parents - the boy who would later change his name to Augusten Burroughs. Ultimately, this is the story of Robison’s journey from his world into ours, a strange, sly, indelible account - sometimes alien, yet always deeply human.
©2007 John Elder Robison (P)2007 Books on Tape
The Great Gatsby
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"The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
©2020 Francis Scott Fitzgerald (P)2020 Page2Page
Gatsby le Magnifique
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Nous sommes au lendemain de la Grande Guerre, le mal du siècle envahit les âmes. C'est l'époque de la Prohibition et des fortunes rapides. En 1922, Jay Gatz, désormais Gatsby, se retrouve fabuleusement riche. Mille légendes courent sur son compte, qui n'empêchent pas les gens chics - et moins chics - de venir en troupe boire ses cocktails et danser sur ses pelouses. Gatsby le Magnifique joue la carte des folles dépenses pour éblouir Daisy, mariée à Tom Buchanan, un héritier millionnaire. Le jour où l'espoir de conquérir sa bien-aimée s'évanouit, la fête prend fin brutalement... Gatsby le Magnifique est un des romans emblématiques de la littérature américaine du XXe siècle. L'interprétation d'Emmanuel Dekoninck met parfaitement en lumière le mélange de naïveté et de rouerie qui tisse le destin de Gatsby, au milieu des extravagances d'une société enivrée de sa démesure naissante.
©1996-2007 Pour la nouvelle traduction by Eleanor Lanahan, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Samuel J. Lanahan and Thomas P. Roche as trustees under agreement dated July 3, 1995 created by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Jacques Tournier (P)2013 Audiolib
F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
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Unearth the literary classics of one of America’s most famous authors. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a masterful writer, with his stories effortlessly touching people’s hearts and reflecting powerful themes and ideas that ring true to this day. A symbol of the rich and vibrant “jazz era”, his books have only grown more popular with time, being adapted into countless films and plays. Now, this collection reveals Fitzgerald’s work in all its glory, unveiling three literary legends that form the foundation of this incredible author’s popularity. At times romantic, at others bizarre, each story is imbued with a poignant reflection on society and a unique look into his own personal life and relationships in the early 20th century. Inside this collection, you’ll find: The Beautiful and Damned, a gripping and detailed look at the convoluted, materialistic, and twisted world of the 1920 socialite elites This Side of Paradise, the classic novel which explores love, passion, and greed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a unique and bizarre tale about a boy who discovers that he’s growing backward If you’re searching for a brilliant introduction to classic literature or if you want to sample the work of an American literary icon, then this collection is for you. Scroll up and buy now to unearth the legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald today!
Public Domain (P)2020 Montgomery Providence Publishing
The Great Gatsby
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In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned". That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the jazz age in all of its decadence and excess, The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's - and his country's - most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...and one fine morning..." Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American dream. It's also a love story of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
Public Domain (P)2020 Fitzgerald LLC