A Rare Recording of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his four novels—This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is The Night—depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. In this recording, Fitgerald reads from Shakespeare's Othello, John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale, and John Masefield's On Growing Old.

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To spiel and speak among the cauldrons of the mountain tops

It is with great pleasure that I can hear F. Scott Fitzgerald speak as to me he is speaking from the cauldrons of the mountain tops. Witches as mentioned by Shakespeare of the public’s eye on the beauty of a young wife. To old age and gray hair encamped by the embers of a fire. What I am to her beauty as am I her universe of stars for a time beyond a thousand beats of the heart.