Short Story·Literary Fiction
Last Night of the Pirate Radio
Héctor Salcedo
Bogotá, 1987: an underground station broadcasts its final four hours before the authorities cut the signal.
Shared themes:Historical fiction
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1925 · Complete work
The Great Gatsby
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“In the dazzling glare of Roaring Twenties Long Island, a mysterious tycoon pursues an impossible dream across a glittering bay.”
In the opulent summer of 1922, young bond salesman Nick Carraway rents a modest cottage in Long Island's West Egg, adjacent to the palatial estate of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is an enigmatic millionaire renowned for lavish, decadent parties, yet he remains aloof, fixated on the green light pulsing across the water at the home of his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Drawn into Gatsby's inner circle, Nick witnesses an intoxicating spectacle of wealth, longing, and delusion, exposing the moral rot lurking beneath the gilded veneer of the American dream.
24 Episodes · Classic
Complete work
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Episode 01
~12 min
Chapter I · I
““Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.””
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Episode 02
~12 min
Chapter I · II
“I looked back at my cousin, who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice.”
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Episode 03
~7 min
Chapter I · III
““Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything.””
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Episode 04
~13 min
Chapter II · I
“They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.”
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Episode 05
~9 min
Chapter II · II
““Get some more ice and mineral water, Myrtle, before everybody goes to sleep.””
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Episode 06
~12 min
Chapter III · I
“Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.”
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Episode 07
~11 min
Chapter III · II
“I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.”
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Episode 08
~7 min
Chapter III · III
“Then, taking a long breath and straightening his shoulders, he remarked in a determined voice:”
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Episode 09
~11 min
Chapter IV · I
““He’s a bootlegger,” said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.”
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Episode 10
~8 min
Chapter IV · II
““I was able to do the commissioner a favour once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year.””
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Episode 11
~9 min
Chapter IV · III
“I was walking along from one place to another, half on the sidewalks and half on the lawns.”
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Episode 12
~12 min
Chapter V · I
““I’m going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over here to tea.””
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Episode 13
~9 min
Chapter V · II
““I did, old sport,” he said automatically, “but I lost most of it in the big panic—the panic of the war.””
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Episode 14
~12 min
Chapter VI · I
“The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.”
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Episode 15
~9 min
Chapter VI · II
““I’d a little rather not be the polo player,” said Tom pleasantly, “I’d rather look at all these famous people in—in oblivion.””
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Episode 16
~13 min
Chapter VII · I
“Wondering if he were sick I went over to find out—an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squinted at me suspiciously from the door.”
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Episode 17
~13 min
Chapter VII · II
““But I need money pretty bad, and I was wondering what you were going to do with your old car.””
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Episode 18
~13 min
Chapter VII · III
““There, Jay,” she said—but her hand as she tried to light a cigarette was trembling.”
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Episode 19
~7 min
Chapter VII · IV
““If somebody’ll come here and sit with him,” he snapped authoritatively.”
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Episode 20
~12 min
Chapter VIII · I
““I waited, and about four o’clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light.””
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Episode 21
~11 min
Chapter VIII · II
““Suppose I don’t go to Southampton, and come into town this afternoon?””
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Episode 22
~10 min
Chapter IX · I
“Most of those reports were a nightmare—grotesque, circumstantial, eager, and untrue.”
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Episode 23
~10 min
Chapter IX · II
““You young men think you can force your way in here any time,” she scolded.”
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Episode 24
~7 min
Chapter IX · III
““Oh, and do you remember”—she added—“a conversation we had once about driving a car?””
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Public-domain work (1925). Text: Project Gutenberg #64317. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more