The Great Gatsby
Entered the public domain in 2021. Still the best last paragraph in American fiction.
- Listening time
- about 5 h 12 min
- Length
- 48,160 words
- First published
- 1925
- Public domain
- the author died in 1940
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 279 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Start Here
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How it begins.
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
- NovaStandardAmerican · female · the free engine0:29
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