"The Classics of F. Scott Fitzgerald" Limited Collector's Edition, Leather Bound 7-Vol. Complete Matching Set

The Classics of F. Scott Fitzgerald - Limited Collector's Edition Matching 7-Volume Set.

Easton Press. Norwalk, CT. 1997. Limited Collector's Edition. A matching set that makes a monumental addition to the library of any serious collector. Bound in full genuine leather with elegant gold detailing. Colorful detail features throughout. Distinctive cover designs. Five of the volumes are sealed without any flaws. Two of the volumes are VF- with a couple of very minor superficial scratches to the page edges.

This collection represents the most attractive volumes this side of paradise...

Seven great Fitzgerald classics. Rediscover these American masterpieces in bindings of museum-quality beauty with vintage cover art and illustrations.


This complete seven volume collection from Easton Press includes:

1. The Great Gatsby [Sealed]
2. The Last Tycoon [Sealed]
3. This Side of Paradise [Sealed]
4. Babylon Revisited [Very Fine-]
5. Tales of the Jazz Age [Very Fine-]
6. The Beautiful and the Damned [Sealed]
7. Tender is the Night [Sealed]

Features

Includes all the classic Easton Press qualities:

* Premium Leather
* Silk Moire Endleaves
* Distinctive Cover Design
* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
* Satin Ribbon Page Marker
* Gilded Page Edges
* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
* Beautiful Illustrations

* Superb craftsmanship and commitment to quality.

About the author

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.

His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).

Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works amid the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson completed and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death.