The Great Gatsby & This Side of Paradise - Hardcover

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

A collected edition of two classic texts by Fitzgerald that explore love, greed, and the American Dream, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clothbound Editions line.

The Great Gatsby is not only Fitzgerald's greatest work--to many, it is the Great American Novel. When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the lavishly outfitted mansion next to his modest house is home to Jay Gatsby. Eventually, Nick becomes aware of Gatsby's intense interest in his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and when Daisy's brutish husband, Tom, probes into Gatsby's background, he uncovers unsavory truths about his rival's wealth.

This edition also includes This Side of Paradise, an autobiographical novel and a portrait of the dawning Jazz Age that launched Fitzgerald's career and turned him into an overnight literary sensation.

Author Biography

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was a celebrated author of novels and short stories whose work is synonymous with the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties of the early twentieth century. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth-century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.