Readers in that sizeable group of people who think The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel will be delighted with Robbins's subtle, brainy and immensely touching new reading. There have been audio versions of Gatsby before this-by Alexander Scourby and Christopher Reeve, to name two-but actor/director Robbins brings a fresh and bracing vision that makes the story gleam. From the jaunty irony of the title page quote ("Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!") to the poetry of Fitzgerald's ending about "the dark fields of the republic" and "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," Robbins conjures up a sublime portrait of a lost world. And as a bonus, the excellent audio actor Robert Sean Leonard reads a selection of Fitzgerald's letters to editors, agents and friends which focus on the writing and selling of the novel. Listeners will revel in learning random factoids, e.g., in 1924, Scott and Zelda were living in a Rome hotel that cost just over $500 a month, and he was respectfully suggesting that his agent Harold Ober ask $15,000 from Liberty magazine for the serial rights to Gatsby.

内容简介

Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece.
Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.

　　《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家F.S.菲茨杰拉德1925年所写的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的短篇小说，小说的背景被设定在现代化的美国社会中上阶层的白人圈内，通过卡洛维的叙述展开。表现了“美国梦”的幻灭。这部小说谴责以汤姆为代表的美国特权阶级自私专横，为所欲为，以同情的态度描写了盖茨比的悲剧，并指出他的悲剧来自他对生活和爱情的幻想，对上层社会人物缺乏认识。

作者简介

F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the major American writers of the twentieth century -- a figure whose life and works embodied powerful myths about our national dreams and aspirations. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. He left us one sure masterpiece, The Great Gatsby; a near-masterpiece, Tender Is the Night; and a gathering of stories and essays that together capture the essence of the American experience. His writings are insightful and stylistically brilliant; today he is admired both as a social chronicler and a remarkably gifted artist.

　　F. Scott Fitzgerald 弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德，美国小说家。他年轻时试写过剧本。读完高中后考入普林斯顿大学。1920年出版了长篇小说《人间天堂》，从此出了名，小说出版后他与泽尔达结婚。婚后携妻寄居巴黎，结识了安德逊、海明威等多位美国作家。1925年《了不起的盖茨比》问世，奠定了他在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。
　　作品：
　　剧本：《美女和被诅咒的人》、《了不起的盖茨比》、《生死同心》、《女人》、《乱世佳人》、《居里夫人》、《夜色温柔》、《我最后一次见到巴黎》、《绮梦初艳》等。
　　长篇小说：《人间天堂》（1920）、《美丽与毁灭》（1922）、《了不起的盖茨比》（1925）、《夜色温柔》（1934）、《最后一个大亨》（1941）等。
　　短篇小说集：《飞女郎与哲学家》（1920）、《爵士时代的故事》（1922）、《那些忧伤的年轻人》（1926）、《早晨的起床号》（1935）等。
　　文集：My Lost City(暂无中文译名)收录名篇《崩溃》。

精彩书评

"One of the greatest works of American literature...a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth."
—The Times

"It is a marvellously suggestive novel... a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life."
—A. N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph

"The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight."
—Mirror

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