Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Eric Webster

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  • Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024

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  • @jennifermcevers3028
    @jennifermcevers3028 2 года назад +26

    Love this version with the different voices and sound effects. Made it much more exciting.

    • @martianknight6341
      @martianknight6341 Год назад

      i hadn't read/heard this since i was 16, and had only read it the once. ive lived several lifetimes since being expelled from that school. im creeping up on the author's age wwhen he died. but that winter i'd read it silently to myself in that classful full of heathens, i feel it now, the same as i did then, but only deeper, bc we all end up living out that Winter's Dream. sry ramble, l8r

  • @stephenstephen1505
    @stephenstephen1505 2 года назад +23

    An excellent narration of great writing. Thanks

  • @dalyweb
    @dalyweb 2 года назад +7

    Mmm. Reading the comments, Internationally “Why can’t we be friends “. Thank you for posting.
    Love the narrator, story flows well, like Daddy reading me a bedtime story:)

  • @meganstrang8187
    @meganstrang8187 День назад

    thanks webby, you’re still helping me out with my college classes!😂❤

  • @ronruggieri9817
    @ronruggieri9817 2 года назад +7

    A few years ago I read about the death of a woman whom I viewed as a neighborhood goddess a long long time ago when she was very , very, young. -and without ever getting to know her intimately or even as a friend . Her death notice seemed rather shabby , lonely , and sad . And I thought about the last few paragraphs of F .Scott Fitzgerald 's " Winter Dreams ":
    [ " The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him. In
    a sort of panic he pushed the palms of his hands into his eyes
    and tried to bring up a picture of the waters lapping on Sherry
    Island and the moonlit veranda, and gingham on the golf-links
    and the dry sun and the gold color of her neck's soft down. And
    her mouth damp to his kisses and her eyes plaintive with
    melancholy and her freshness like new fine linen in the
    morning. Why, these things were no longer in the world! They
    had existed and they existed no longer.
    For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his
    face. But they were for himself now. He did not care about
    mouth and eyes and moving hands. He wanted to care, and he
    could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go
    back any more. The gates were closed, the sun was gone
    down, and there was no beauty but the gray beauty of steel
    that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne
    was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the
    richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.
    "Long ago," he said, "long ago, there was something in me, but
    now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is
    gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no
    more . " ]

    • @trandom2083
      @trandom2083 Месяц назад

      Thanks for typing that up for us which is probably the most poingnant paragraph of the book ❤

  • @connorgohmann6573
    @connorgohmann6573 Год назад +2

    Fantastic audio book

  • @CakesbyNess
    @CakesbyNess Год назад +1

    Beautifully read.

  • @blazezthename
    @blazezthename Год назад +4

    My english final is on this book in 4 hours, hope it goes well!

    • @BriKat1104
      @BriKat1104 Год назад +1

      i hope it went well!! ☺️

    • @blazezthename
      @blazezthename Год назад +2

      @@BriKat1104 omg thank you!! I passed it so I'd say it went well! :)

    • @BriKat1104
      @BriKat1104 Год назад +1

      @@blazezthename yayyy! im so glad to finally hear some good news lol! i hope you have a good day! 🙃

  • @wayneharrison419
    @wayneharrison419 2 года назад +6

    F. Scott Fitzgerald is Francis Scott Fitzgerald. He is the grandson of Francis Scott Key - author of the National Anthem.

    • @pboddy2920
      @pboddy2920 2 года назад +3

      Whose national anthem? This may come as a shock to you but there are many.

    • @severidesgirl5145
      @severidesgirl5145 2 года назад +2

      @@pboddy2920 United States of America....
      Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". Key observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812.
      State of Maryland is one of the USA original founding states.
      You didnt know that??

    • @pboddy2920
      @pboddy2920 2 года назад +6

      😂😂😂
      Why should I? I come from the 95.75% of the world that ISN'T American. From a country with a national anthem significantly older than yours.
      This is the internet, not America
      😂😂😂

    • @wayneharrison419
      @wayneharrison419 2 года назад +1

      @@severidesgirl5145 Thank you Ms. Severide for your correct and timely reply to @P Boddy re Francis Scott Key.
      Had P Boddy just taken a moment to think that F S Fitzgerald, and therefore most probably his grandfather, F S Key, were American, he would have understood I meant the American Natl Anthem. It should have been most obvious I wa

    • @edrodriguez6001
      @edrodriguez6001 2 года назад +1

      Distant cousin, not grandfather.

  • @wordjunkys
    @wordjunkys 2 года назад +1

    excellent audio!!

  • @Nicebody848.
    @Nicebody848. 2 года назад

    💙

  • @anglosaxonbreed
    @anglosaxonbreed 2 года назад +1

    These are the things that young men go through when they're growing up . The mateing game. The we learn or do we ever learn?

  • @shiningyoonie
    @shiningyoonie 10 месяцев назад +1

    10:30

  • @raquelcortez277
    @raquelcortez277 2 года назад

    28:00

  • @trandom2083
    @trandom2083 Месяц назад

    I dont think I like Fitzgerald. This is my second attempt. I found both stories lacking in content & depressing but maybe that was his goal. The narration however was superb with all the sound effects. Someone put alot of work into this, thanks

  • @kalliebabcock3243
    @kalliebabcock3243 Год назад

    44:33

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas6335 10 месяцев назад +1

    Well done, except for the intrusive and unnecessary music track, which manages only to be irritating.

  • @longcastle4863
    @longcastle4863 2 года назад +3

    Music sound effects. No

    • @bbhaspots8975
      @bbhaspots8975 Год назад

      Yes

    • @RBurnerAcc
      @RBurnerAcc Год назад +1

      Exactly what I was saying 🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @libby8507
      @libby8507 10 месяцев назад +1

      they’re so annoying

  • @lararabb8888
    @lararabb8888 Год назад +1

    Might be a classic but I didn't like it.

  • @KarissaFisher-f5x
    @KarissaFisher-f5x 8 месяцев назад

    This version skips parts of the story and replaces random words. Disappointing!

  • @maryalice5357
    @maryalice5357 2 года назад +2

    Must everything be contentious? Ok then, North or South America? The United States OF America.

  • @Thirza.
    @Thirza. 2 года назад

    omg dramatic reading. Ghastly.