First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby still sells half a million copies a year. Both a brilliant evocation of the Jazz Age in all its exhausting glory and a satire of a country obsessed with money and power, F Scott Fitzgerald's novel is lauded as one of the greatest ever written in English. His editor Max Perkins described it as "a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism".
Audible is launching an investigative podcast series about the origins of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic character Jay Gatsby, subject of classic novel The…
By the end of the 19th century, tabloids were a firm fixture among British newspaper titles. Editors had realised that crime sold papers, and the more dramatic, the better. But they were looking at another way to expand their audience. As the historian and author Lucy Worsley says in Joe Nocera’s new series Agatha Christie and the Dandelion Poisoner (Audible Original): “What newspapers were wanting to do in the 1920s was to move from a business model where a man buys a weekly paper to a model where a man and a woman buy a daily paper.”