Luhrmann’s version of Gatsby opened in the US last Friday, and it may well reach a wide audience. Now we are burdened with the result, and there’s not much that can be done about that. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) was wrongheaded and likely to result in an artistic travesty. It is unfortunate that during the filmmaking process no one ever turned to director Baz Luhrmann and suggested that his interpretation of F. Even if I had no talents I’d not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man’s son an automobile.” Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920) I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. “This is the first time in my life I’ve argued Socialism. “It’s not all rubbish,” cried Amory passionately. Copyright laws are created under the guise of helping authors when in reality it seems they are designed for big companies to continue to profit off of someone else’s hard work for nearly 100 years after publication.Directed by Baz Luhrmann, co-written by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, based on the novel by F. So ebookstores can still milk it for all it’s worth until the year 2021, despite the fact Francis Scott Fitzgerald died way back in 1940. Update: As some commenters below have pointed out, this book is in fact not in the public domain in the United States because it was published two years after 1923 where the cutoff changes from 70 years to 95 years. Then it shot up to $9.99 and has remained there ever since. The same thing happened to George Martin’s A Game of Thrones, which used to sell for $6.99 in ebook form until HBO started airing the Game of Thrones TV series. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that everyone is trying to cash in on the success of the movie, but I still don’t like it. What I like about Feedbooks is their ebooks are nicely formatted, so there’s no reason to go spend $5-$10 elsewhere. None of those ebookstores want you to know that you can simply go to and download The Great Gatsby for free in ePub, Mobi (for Kindle), and PDF formats.
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