The Great Gatsby

Eine Geschichte über einen jungen und mysteriösen Millionär Jay Gatsby

This app contains text and audio ebook of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald with a powerful reader.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as yah cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

[About F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also authored four collections of short stories, as well as 164 short stories in magazines during his lifetime.

[App Features]

1. Text to Speech: Sync text rendering with audio playback. Four speeds options.

2. In-App Dictionary and Wikipedia Search functions

3. Custom Fonts, Text Size, Reading Mode(Vertical/Horizontal), and Theme(Day mode/Night mode)

4. Add Highlights with different Style, and also includes List/Edit/Delete functions

5. Support both Portrait and Landscape screens

6. With "Reading Time Left / Pages Left" information for each chapter