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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 48,557 words
2:19:46
at 390 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about five hours.

Nick Carraway rents a house on Long Island for eighty dollars a month, next door to the mansion where Jay Gatsby throws enormous parties and stands alone on the marble steps watching. Gatsby says he is from the Middle West and names San Francisco; the guests say he is a bootlegger. What he wants is Daisy Buchanan, last seen five years ago and married now to Tom — rich, an old football man from New Haven, casually cruel — across the bay. Tom keeps an apartment in the city for Myrtle Wilson, who lives over her husband's garage in the ash heaps. One sitting does it, and most of that is parties and small cruelties; then the hottest day of the summer, a hotel room, and the drive home.

9 chapters · begin at the beginning
Chapter I16:59begin ▸
·Chapter II12:24sealed
·Chapter III16:34sealed
·Chapter IV15:47sealed
·Chapter V12:19sealed
·Chapter VI11:42sealed
·Chapter VII26:10sealed
·Chapter VIII12:56sealed
·Chapter IX14:56sealed

How long does it take to read The Great Gatsby?

The Great Gatsby is 48,557 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 2 hr 42 min, or roughly 2 hr 1 min if you read quickly and 4 hr 3 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

That count is measured from the complete public-domain text rather than estimated from a page count, so you can compare all the books side by side.

Text: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence