Great audiobook, perfect for studying The Great Gatsby, or equally to enjoy the reading without the study guide.
This includes a revision guide so it is an excellent choice for students and as it is an audiobook if you struggle with reading this is a great option.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me access an advance copy of this publication in exchange for my honest feedback.

My thanks to Penguin Random House U.K. Audio for a review copy via NetGalley of the unabridged audiobook of ‘Studying The Great Gatsby: The Complete Text and Revision Guide’ in exchange for an honest review.

Obviously the novel is by F. Scott Fitzgerald with its revision material provided by Priya Christie. The audiobook is narrated by Roy McMillan and Adam Sims.

This audiobook proved an excellent way to gain a deeper appreciation of ‘The Great Gatsby’, considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century. It is a personal favourite of mine though this is my first experience of it as an audiobook.

As this is a revision guide it opens with an exploration of the novel’s characters, historical context and themes before the formal reading, chapter by chapter. Each chapter is followed by a summary.

For anyone unfamiliar with the novel wanting to avoid spoilers, it might be best to skip the introduction and analysis and start with the reading of the novel and then at the conclusion return to listen to the revision material.

This is a very useful guide for students, educators, or anyone seeking a deeper appreciation of ‘The Great Gatsby’.

This was part of a series of four ‘Studying’ audiobooks produced by Penguin Audio U.K. in 2020 that includes unabridged readings along with revision material.

Really useful for students studying The Great Gatsby. I would really highly recommend this for any student, though it would make the text a lot more accessible for students who potentially have difficulty reading physically (e.g. dyslexic students).

There's a really good mixture of key information, as well as the full text, and I found it easy in an audiobook format to shift between the two and dip in and out of the different bits of information. Having sections on characters, themes, structure, and historical context provides such a well-rounded context to the reading and the inclusion of chapter summaries and key quotations was incredibly useful.

To my shame, although I had seen the ballet, I’d never read the book and wanted to see how the story had been translated for the ballet (very well). I enjoyed the depth of the guide and enjoyed the narration, as I always do when I listen to these study guides

I requested this audiobook for my students during their exam year. It is most useful and I will perhaps incorporate it into my curriculum

Excellent resource for students and people who speak English as a second language. With an in-depth explanatory introduction followed by the complete text, every chapter is given a synopsis directly after Fitzgerald's.

Depending on the type of learner that you are, listening to audiobook study guides can really help cement points and quotations in your head. I wish this guide had been available for my daughter when she was studying this text.

It would be more helpful if the sections had header names, eg Main Characters, America between the wars, etc to make it easier to study around a topic.

This is a review of this format and the content of the study materials as I have already previously reviewed the GG.

I think this is a really great idea and I wish it had been available when I was grown up, it really brings the novel to life and discusses all the important issues that a student would need to know in a way that is clear to understand.

My only criticism is that the discussions of the book which includes spoilers are all at the start of the audiobook and I fear that students may listen to these first and then not bother to listen to the full audio of the book which would be such a loss for them.

This is a good study guide for A level students and helps to focus on some of the key themes and ideas of Gatsby. It's well structured in that the analysis comes up-front, followed by a reading of the full text with a summary at the end of each chapter. I'd suggest this is good after the student has read the book for the first time and is definitely a supplement to, not a replacement for, the book. The reading is well done and may be helpful to students struggling with some of the more formal language of Fitzgerald.

Don't expect this to say anything hugely original: it focuses on Fitzgerald's analysis of class, money and the American Dream, with some standard character analyses, and draws attention to the modernist elements of the narrative, especially the retrospective and fractured nature of Nick's story and consequent emphasis on time. It would have been nice to have had some questions for the student to think about further to direct a more personal engagement with the text as well as some commentary on the stylistics of the prose - but overall, I'd see this as a helpful adjunct to reading the book for A level (or even GCSE).