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The Great Gatsby Letters

F Scott Fitzgerald tells his editor Maxwell Perkins about his hopes and fears for his new novel. Read by William Hope. From 1996.

F Scott Fitzgerald tells his editor Maxwell Perkins about his hopes and fears for his new novel - The Great Gatsby.

A selection of the lively correspondence describes the story in making, as the author travelled the south Mediterranean at the time, with his wife Zelda.

Read by William Hope.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in September 1996.

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