The greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream, The Great Gatsby, a portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence & excess, is by far the most popular classic in modern American fiction. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgeralds
- & his countrys
- most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed & the promise of new beginnings. Gatsby is the man who has everything
- but one thing will always be out of his reach. A BBC Radio Four full cast dramatisation.