The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
Nine chapters of the summer of 1922.
9 chapters · 48,124 words · about 20 hours at 40 wpm
Start with Chapter 1Chapters
- 1 Chapter 1In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been… ~2.5 h
- 2 Chapter 2About halfway between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and… ~2 h
- 3 Chapter 3There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens… ~2.5 h
- 4 Chapter 4On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its… ~2.5 h
- 5 Chapter 5When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on… ~2 h
- 6 Chapter 6About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby’s… ~1.5 h
- 7 Chapter 7It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed… ~3.5 h
- 8 Chapter 8I couldn’t sleep all night; a foghorn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed… ~2 h
- 9 Chapter 9After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as… ~2 h
Text: Project Gutenberg #64317. In the public domain.