The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway rents a small house on Long Island next to a mansion where the parties never stop, thrown by a host almost nobody has actually met. Jay Gatsby's champagne, his shirts, his rumored past, all of it, Nick slowly learns, is aimed like an arrow at a single green light across the bay: Daisy Buchanan, the girl Gatsby loved five years ago and intends, against all sense, to win back exactly as things were.

Fitzgerald packs the glitter and rot of the Jazz Age into barely fifty thousand words (every sentence polished, every image doing double work) before the summer curdles into betrayal and violence. At around five and a half hours, it is one of the great one-sitting listens: an entire American myth between one commute and the next.

At roughly 51,100 words, The Great Gatsby runs about 5½ hours at 1x narration speed. That figure is an estimate based on a typical narration pace. The exact length depends on the voice and the playback speed you choose.

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